Data center changes the speed of light to the future cabinet-style architecture

Today's data centers are increasingly processing data every day, in order to achieve higher bandwidth, it is necessary to the data center of the IT hardware such as servers, storage and network units to achieve high-speed interconnection between them. At this time, copper wire transmission technology due to the limited transmission distance and helpless.

How to break the bottleneck of traditional transmission? Let's take a look at how the Silicon photon (Silicon http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/16874.html >photonics) technology uses optical communication to achieve this breakthrough.

Recently, Intel United Corning (Corning) and US Conec jointly released--MXC cables, an important part of the production of silicon-photon technology. Where Intel provides silicon photon technology, US Conec design tools and sales components, Corning manufactures Clearcurve LX fiber, buys US Conec components and sells MXC cables, which is a powerful combination of industry leaders.

How fast can this product reach? A MXC cable will be able to achieve 1.6 TB per second, which means that downloading two HD HD videos from itunes is less than 2 seconds!

The MXC cable for data center users have a "fatal" Temptation: MXC Single cable can provide the highest 1.6Tbps of bandwidth, one-way 800Gbps, can replace 80条万 Gigabit Ethernet connection, compared to the highest transmission distance of copper cable can reach only 100 meters, MXC up to 300 meters, The significance of the data center is self-evident; MXC Cable has greater fiber cross-section area, has a better ability to resist dust than ordinary optical fiber; it is also reported that the new MXC cable assembly components Less, the cost will be lower.

Right hand green and tender is MXC cable, left hand black and thick is 128Gbps PCI Express copper Cable

It is reported that the first batch of silicon photon technology, including Microsoft, Huawei, Facebook, Arista, Fujitsu, and so on, MXC cable samples from the current supply, the third quarter of this year into a large number of production. The production of silicon-photon technology will undoubtedly accelerate the process of "hardware reconfiguration" of internet giants, such as OCP open Rack, Intel's RSA (Rack Scale architecture, rack-extension architecture) and other separate racks (disagreegated Rack) Designed to drive the development of cabinet-level servers based on open architecture.