TE Connectivity wins prestigious Desingcon award

And the awards just keep coming for TE Connectivity, with the latest award from Designcon for their STRADA Whisper connectors.

Awarded ‘Best Interconnect Technologies & Components’ at Designcon 2013, it’s clear that there must be something in the STRADA series – so let’s take a closer look.

According to TE The STRADA Whisper backplane family was designed with your customer’s need for high-performing, high-bandwidth systems in mind. Its revolutionary design transfers data at blinding speeds of 25 Gbps and offers unparalleled scalability of up to 40 Gbps—allowing you to achieve efficient future system upgrades without costly backplane or midplane redesigns.

The electrical properties, in a nutshell, are:

  •  Ÿ        Power Sum FEXT is lower than -50 dB for system implementation at 12.5 GHz
  • Ÿ        Insertion loss is less than 1dB and linear up to 20 Ghz
  • Ÿ        Individual shielded pairs offer excellent signal integrity / EMI performance
  • Ÿ        Little to no skew through high-speed differential pairs
  • Ÿ        Common mode impedance controlled throughout the connector, including footprint and mating interface
  • Ÿ        Superior 25-Gbps electrical performance, maintained even in a 1.5mm unmated condition
  • Ÿ        Unlike some competitive products, there’s no reliance on noise cancellation, which can be critical in high-speed applications
  • Ÿ        85-Ohm and 100-Ohm versions available

 

Their target market includes: Servers & Storage, Switches, Routers, Optical Transport & Wireless infrastructure.

Here is a video demonstrating the technical capabilities of this advanced interconnect system.  On a personal note, I think this video should win an award for the amount of technical jargon and great use of acronyms!  Enjoy:

http://youtu.be/4kgmkdOwdOk

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