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Ed Cady

How are high-speed copper wires terminated today?

September 7, 2016 By Ed Cady Leave a Comment

Aquaflame

In our last blog post, we discussed traditional methods of terminating high-speed copper wires. In today’s discussion, we’ll highlight how these processes have modernized in recent years, starting with hot bar solder reflowing. Hot Bar solder reflowing evolved for use through an upper and lower wide opposite bar machine that did simultaneous reflowing of twin-axial wire […]

Filed Under: Basics, Blog

What is the traditional process for high-speed copper wire termination?

September 1, 2016 By Ed Cady Leave a Comment

Early high-speed copper wire termination

Many electronic generations ago, during the 1970s, high-speed I/O copper connector popular types included coaxial BNC, pin-and-socket D-subminiature, and even a bit later the IDC Delta-ribbon varieties. Many cable assemblies were hand terminated by highly skilled manufacturing assemblers and technicians. In those days, accurate hand tools helped to generate a reasonable yield and rework level. […]

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What is the newly released PCIe 3.1 External Cable specification about?

August 18, 2016 By Ed Cady Leave a Comment

PCIe 3.1 External Cables TE-MiniSAS-HD-cables-and-receptacle-caged-connectors

At this current week’s Intel Developers Forum, IDF 2016 in San Francisco, at the PCI-SIG booth, new PCIe 3.1 products and technologies are being announced and showcased. PCIe 3.1 is a new generation External Cable Link specification developed by the PCI-SIG association and is based on the MiniSAS HD, SNIA SFF-8644 connector and cable assembly […]

Filed Under: Data Transmission, Industry News & Events, Products

Where are network copper breakout cable assemblies and related connectors used?

June 27, 2016 By Ed Cady Leave a Comment

Siemon’s-CXP-to-three-QSFP+-breakout-cable-supports-IB-4x14G=56G-FDR-and-Ethernet-4x10G=40GBaseCR-interfaces

Breakout cable assemblies are also called Fan-out, Hydra and Octopus cables depending on what market segment and application history is involved. The name Hydra is used by those in the enterprise infrastructure interconnect industry. Breakout is the term favored by many Cloud datacenter people. Fan-out has been mostly used by enterprise datacenter people and Octopus […]

Filed Under: Basics, Data Transmission, Products

What’s going on with the new RCx high speed IO passive copper cabling?

April 27, 2016 By Ed Cady Leave a Comment

RCx high speed IO passive copper cabling

  RCx, Rack Connect x(lane), is a new intra-rack passive copper short reach, 25 Gbps per lane cabling system that is being driven and supported by a group of next generation Cloud interconnect developers. The 25Gigabit Ethernet Consortium, Ethernet Alliance and soon, maybe other IO interface groups, are supporting RCx which connects ToR or MoR […]

Filed Under: Basics, Blog, Industry News & Events, Products

What are the types of twisted pair cabling available today?

March 18, 2016 By Ed Cady Leave a Comment

cable_c8 twisted pair cabling

The use of balanced, four twisted pair, infrastructure high-speed I/O network system copper cabling, both new and old types, is in a major transition right now. CAT-5e 100 MHz unshielded, twisted pair cabling usage is in significant decline as does not support newer emerging applications and signaling technologies. It has been used for primarily 100 […]

Filed Under: Basics, Blog, Data Transmission, Products

How do you specify twin-axial, high-speed I/O cabling?

February 25, 2016 By Ed Cady Leave a Comment

Hitachi-Ribbon twin-axial, high-speed I/O cabing

  It is amazing that after five decades of copper twin-axial raw cable developments, shipments and diverse applications, there are several newly released raw cable products being used for several new generation I/O interface standard and custom cable assemblies. These cables are being used for both internal and external assemblies applications used within new consumer, […]

Filed Under: Basics, Blog, Products Tagged With: hitachi, Leoni, lorom, Molex, teconnectivity

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