TE Connectivity (TE), a global leader in connectivity and sensor technology, today announced the STRADA Whisper Cable Assemblies product line. Without the use of printed circuit board (PCB) materials, the STRADA Whisper cable connector supports high-speed data transfer for superior performance and greater flexibility. The product is suitable for high performance computing (HPC) and core routing applications and continues the STRADA Whisper product line leading electrical and signal integrity (SI) performance with data transfer speeds of up to 25-56 Gbps (PAM-4) The future will be extended to 56 Gbps (NRZ). In addition, the STRADA Whisper cable assembly has less insertion loss, improving channel Margin and supporting a more innovative system architecture design.

TE Connectivity introduces the STRADA Whisper cable assembly

With the increased data transfer rate, PCB material costs also increased, STRADA Whisper cable assemblies provide a flexible solution that can support longer distances of transmission. Because it does not need to be connected to the PCB, the connection solution is also expanded. TE offers three major STRADA Whisper cable solutions including point-to-point cables, value-added components and complete backplane / midplane solutions.

"As the industry's growing demand for high-speed connectivity increases, traditional PCB materials are no longer able to meet the required performance, and our STRADA Whisper cable assembly not only provides the required performance," said Jim Gula, product manager, TE Data and Terminal Equipment Division. , We can also support flexible layout of the long channel segment, based on this technology, we work with customers to design a high degree of their application needs to meet the backplane cable components.

"When developing the Intel Omni-Path (OPA) architecture, we would like to be able to find a backplane product that meets both specific requirements and good signal integrity and reliability," said Vladimir Tamarkin, Intel Platform Engineering Business Manager. STRADA Whisper Cable Assembly Unique and highly customizable design, we have successfully worked with TE to configure a connector solution that meets the specifications. "