1.6T OSFP224 DAC

Product Overview

The 1.6T OSFP224 DAC is a direct-attach copper cable assembly designed for high-speed data transmission scenarios. It strictly complies with InfiniBand XDR and IEEE802.3dj industry standards, supporting high-speed transmission modes from 8x200G-PM4 to 8x200G-PM4. The product employs an advanced dual-core, 16-pair bulk cable assembly process, offering excellent mechanical durability and electromagnetic shielding performance. This effectively reduces signal crosstalk, ensuring stable and accurate data transmission. It supports a maximum transmission distance of 1 meter and fully conforms to the hot-pluggable OSFP MSA standard, with an operating temperature range covering 0℃–70℃, making it suitable for various demanding industrial-grade environments.

Core Technical Features

The core technical advantages of this 1.6T OSFP224 DAC stem from its strict adherence to industry standards and precise manufacturing processes. First, it fully complies with InfiniBand XDR and IEEE802.3dj standards, ensuring high compatibility with relevant standard equipment and enabling seamless integration without additional configuration. Its 8x200G-PM4 transmission mode provides ample bandwidth support for large-scale data exchange, meeting the demands of high-density data transfer.

In terms of cable structure, the product adopts a dual-core, 16-pair bulk cable assembly. This design not only enhances the cable’s mechanical strength, providing outstanding durability and resistance to damage caused by bending or pulling, but also, through its dual-core construction combined with professional shielding, effectively isolates external electromagnetic interference, reducing signal crosstalk and ensuring signal integrity during high-speed transmission. With a maximum transmission distance of 1 meter, it meets the needs of short-distance, high-speed connections within data centers while avoiding signal attenuation issues associated with longer distances.

Additionally, the product complies with the hot-pluggable OSFP MSA standard, allowing components to be plugged in or removed while the system remains powered on, eliminating the need to shut down the system for component replacement or upgrades. This greatly enhances the convenience and efficiency of equipment maintenance. Its operating temperature range of 0℃–70℃ enables it to adapt to a variety of environments, from the constant temperatures of conventional data centers to the fluctuating temperatures found in certain industrial settings, ensuring stable operation under all conditions.

Performance Parameters

1. Transmission specifications: 8x200G-PM4 to 8x200G-PM4
2. Compliance standards: InfiniBand XDR, IEEE802.3dj, hot-pluggable OSFP MSA
3. Cable structure: Dual-core, 16-pair bulk cable
4. Maximum transmission distance: 1 meter
5. Operating temperature: 0℃–70℃
6. Core features: High mechanical durability, strong shielding, low crosstalk

Key Advantages

1. High compatibility: Strictly compliant with InfiniBand XDR and IEEE802.3dj standards, and compatible with the hot-pluggable OSFP MSA standard, enabling seamless integration with various standard-compliant high-performance devices without additional adaptation or debugging, thus reducing deployment costs and time.
2. High-speed, stable transmission: Supports the 8x200G-PM4 high-speed transmission mode, coupled with a low-crosstalk shielded cable design, ensuring signal integrity during large-scale data transfers and preventing packet loss or latency, thereby improving data interaction efficiency.
3. Outstanding durability: The dual-core, 16-pair bulk cable structure significantly enhances the product’s mechanical strength, allowing it to withstand everyday bending, pulling, and other external forces, reducing equipment failures caused by physical damage and extending the product’s service life.
4. Wide temperature adaptability: With an operating temperature range of 0℃–70℃, it can adapt to diverse working environments, maintaining stable operation whether in the constant temperatures of conventional data centers or in the fluctuating temperatures of industrial settings.
5. Convenient maintenance: Supports hot-plugging, enabling component replacement without shutting down the system, greatly improving maintenance efficiency and minimizing losses due to system downtime.

Core Value of the Product

1. Leveraging its high compatibility design, it reduces adaptation costs for device integration, accelerating deployment in high-performance computing, data center, and other scenarios.
2. Its high-speed, stable transmission performance provides reliable support for large-scale data exchanges, enhancing operational efficiency in data centers, AI accelerators, and similar equipment.
3. With its high durability and wide temperature adaptability, it lowers maintenance frequency and failure risk, reducing long-term operating costs.
4. The hot-plugging feature improves equipment maintenance convenience, minimizes system downtime, and ensures continuous, stable business operations.

Target Customer Groups

High-performance computing (HPC) equipment manufacturers, switch and router producers, machine learning (ML) architecture and AI accelerator developers, data center infrastructure providers, and cloud computing service providers.

Application Scenarios

This product is primarily used in scenarios with extremely high demands for data transmission speed and stability, including internal device connections within high-performance computing (HPC) clusters, providing high-speed data exchange channels for large-scale scientific computations and engineering simulations; high-speed link connections between switches and routers, enhancing the data forwarding capabilities of core network nodes; internal data transmission within machine learning (ML) architectures and AI accelerators, meeting the rapid data exchange requirements of AI model training; additionally, it is widely applied in data center and cloud computing environments, providing stable, high-speed connections for servers, storage devices, and other core components, thereby ensuring overall data center operational efficiency.

Solving Industry Pain Points

1. Addressing the issue of poor traditional cable compatibility: Some conventional cables cannot simultaneously meet InfiniBand XDR, IEEE802.3dj, and OSFP MSA standards, requiring additional adaptation for device integration and increasing deployment costs and time. This product’s full compliance design enables seamless integration, eliminating adaptation challenges.
2. Improving crosstalk issues during high-speed transmission: In high-frequency, high-speed transmission scenarios, ordinary cables are prone to signal crosstalk, leading to packet loss and latency. This product’s dual-core, shielded cable design effectively reduces crosstalk, safeguarding signal integrity.
3. Solving the inconvenience of equipment maintenance: Some non-hot-pluggable cable assemblies require system shutdown for replacement, causing business interruptions. This product’s hot-plugging support allows maintenance without downtime, minimizing business losses.
4. Adapting to wide-temperature working environments: In some industrial or special scenarios, temperature fluctuations are significant, and ordinary cables cannot operate stably. This product’s wide temperature range of 0℃–70℃ accommodates such environments, ensuring stable equipment operation.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Q1: What transmission modes does the 1.6T OSFP224 DAC support?
A: This DAC supports high-speed transmission modes from 8x200G-PM4 to 8x200G-PM4, meeting the bandwidth requirements of large-scale data exchanges.
Q2: What is the product’s transmission distance?
A: The product supports a maximum transmission distance of 1 meter, suitable for short-distance, high-speed connections between devices within data centers.
Q3: Does the product support hot-plugging?
A: Yes, the product fully complies with the hot-pluggable OSFP MSA standard, allowing plugging and unplugging while the system remains powered on, facilitating equipment maintenance and upgrades.
Q4: What is the product’s operating temperature range?
A: The product operates within a temperature range of 0℃–70℃, adapting to various working environments, including conventional data centers and certain industrial settings.
Q5: Which industry standards does this DAC comply with?
A: The product strictly adheres to InfiniBand XDR and IEEE802.3dj standards, while also complying with the hot-pluggable OSFP MSA standard, demonstrating high compatibility.