Industry Leaders Announce a Collaboration to Create a 'QSFP' Multi-Source Agreement -MSA- for Multi-Standard Quad SFP Optical Transceivers from 100 Mbit Ethernet up to 4 Gbit Fibre Channel.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif. -- MSA (Metropolitan Service Area) An urban area with at least 50,000 people plus surrounding counties. There are 306 MSAs and 428 RSAs (rural service areas) in the U.S. MSAs and RSAs are used to allocate cellular licenses. Defines a Highly-Integrated 4-Channel Optical Transceiver to Replace Four Standard SFP SFP Small Form-factor Pluggable (optical transceiver module) SFP Société Française de Physique (French Physics Society; Paris) Sfp Svenska Folkpartiet (Finnish: Swedish People~s Party) Modules Providing Increased Port Density and Total System Cost Saving Nine leading networking component suppliers, including Agilent Technologies This article needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. Inc., Applied Micro Circuits Corp., Hitachi-Cable America, Infineon Technologies For the raceway, see . Infineon Technologies AG (ISIN: DE0006231004, FWB: IFX, NYSE: IFX) was founded in April 1999 when the semiconductor operations of parent company, Siemens AG, were spun off to form a separate legal entity. Fiber Optics fiber optics, transmission of digitized messages or information by light pulses along hair-thin glass fibers. Each fiber is surrounded by a cladding having a high index of refractance so that the light is internally reflected and travels the length of the fiber GmbH, JDS Uniphase JDS Uniphase Corporation (JDSU) NASDAQ: JDSU is a company that manufactures and designs products for fiber optic communication and test equipment. It is headquartered in Milpitas, California, USA. Corp., Molex Inc., Optical Communication Products, Inc., Picolight Inc. and Tyco Electronics Tyco Electronics was the largest unit of Tyco International Ltd., and the world's leading supplier of passive electronic components. On June 29, 2007 Tyco Electronics became a wholly independent publicly-traded company, along with Covidien, from the breakup of the Tyco conglomerate , today announced a collaboration to create a new Multi-Source Agreement (MSA) for an integrated multi-standard Quad Small Form-factor Pluggable (QSFP) transceiver to support Ethernet, Fibre Channel and SONET/SDH with data rates of up to 4.25 Gigabit per second (Gb/s). The QSFP MSA defines a transceiver module mechanical form-factor with latching mechanism and a host board SFP-like electrical edge connector and cage. The hot-pluggable module integrates four transmit and four receive channels with a standard MPO MPO myeloperoxidase. MPO Myeloperoxidase, see there parallel optical connector. The QSFP device features digital optical diagnostic capability to monitor the link performance. The MSA will also define a multi-cage stacking configuration for increased density applications. This highly integrated transceiver module will enable network equipment manufacturers to increase port density and system data throughput and consequently reduce costs per Gb/s significantly. The QSFP MSA group will make details of the specification available to the industry, so that other optical transceiver manufacturers can produce compatible products. Various companies expect to begin shipping QSFP transceivers in the first half of 2006. About the QSFP MSA: The QSFP MSA welcomes application for membership from component, transceiver and network equipment manufacturers. More information about joining the MSA and status and availability of the specification is available at www.qsfpmsa.org. For further information, customers may contact the following representatives: Dan Rausch Agilent Technologies Inc. +1-408-435-6689 dan(underscore)rausch@agilent.com ----------------------------------------------------- Tom Hume Applied Micro Circuits Corp. +1-858-535-3274 thume@amcc.com ----------------------------------------------------- Kan Imai Hitachi Cable America +1-408-260-2630 imai@sj.hitachi-cable.com ----------------------------------------------------- Rami Kanama, Infineon Technologies Fiber Optics GmbH +1-408-386-3191 rami.kanama@infineon.com ----------------------------------------------------- Brenda Pearman JDS Uniphase Corp. +1-507-322-9195 brenda.pearman@jdsu.com ----------------------------------------------------- Jay Neer Molex Inc. +1-561-447-2907 ex.3889 jneer@molex.com ----------------------------------------------------- Kirk Bovill Optical Communication Products Inc. +1-818-251-7180 kbovill@ocp-inc.com ----------------------------------------------------- Vidya Sharma Picolight Inc. +1-303-530-3189 vidya.sharma@picolight.com ----------------------------------------------------- Rod Smith Tyco Electronics +1-717-986-5912 rssmith@tycoelectronics.com ----------------------------------------------------- |
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