How to minimize the cost of server interconnect?

The server interconnection distance is generally within 3 to 5 meters. Compared with optical modules and active optical cables, choosing passive direct-connect copper cables can save more than 90% of the cost.

High-Speed I/O Server Interconnect

For high-speed I/O interconnection between servers and between servers and top-of-rack switches, due to the short distance, the most cost-effective direct-attached copper cable (DAC) is generally used.

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800G QSFP-DD PCC

Up to 1.8m (8x 112G PAM4)

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400G QSFP112 PCC

Up to 2m (4x 112G PAM4)

Storage Area Network

The storage area network mainly adopts fiber channel technology, which can provide higher storage capacity than Ethernet technology, and the internal interconnection usually uses short-distance multi-mode transceivers or active optical cables (AOC).

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32GFC SFP28 SR/eSR

Up to 100m/300m (I-Temp Optional)

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128GFC QSFP28 SR4/eSR4

Up to 100m/300m (I-Temp Optional)

sfp-aoc

32GFC SFP28 AOC

Up to 100m/300m (I-Temp Optional)

100g-qsfp28-aoc

128GFC QSFP28 AOC

Up to 100m/300m (I-Temp Optional)

Data Center Disaster Recovery Backup

Data centers need to build backup in different areas to back up the data. The data transmission between two data centers requires long-distance Fibre Channel transceivers (including CWDM/DWDM series).

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32GFC SFP28 LR

Up to 10km (I-Temp Optional)

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32GFC SFP28 ER

Up to 30km/40km (I-Temp Optional)

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32GFC SFP28 DWDM

Up to 2km/10km (I-Temp Optional)

Deep Packet Inspection (DPI)

DPI is to add a monitoring port to the transmission equipment, and separate a part of the data packets for security detection, usually in the form of unidirectional transmission, so optical modules that only include receivers need to be used at the monitoring end.