Copper link evaluations/solutions for fiber channel, SSA, SONET, ATM, and other services through 4 Gb/sec: basic information, test results, and evaluation

Michael Jay Leib

doi:10.1117/12.224201

1 October 1995 Copper link evaluations/solutions for fiber channel, SSA, SONET, ATM, and other services through 4 Gb/sec: basic information, test results, and evaluation

Michael Jay Leib

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Proceedings Volume 2608, Emerging High-Speed Local-Area Networks and Wide-Area Networks; (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.224201
Event: Photonics East '95, 1995, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Abstract

Technitrol, the original designer of MIL-STD-1553 transformers, the original military 1Mb/s LAN, has advanced the state of the art one further notch, introducing a series of transceivers that allow high speed (through 1 Gb/s) data transmission over copper wire instead of fiber optic cable. One such device can be employed to implement the Fiber Channel Interface as defined by hte X3T11 ANSI Fibre Channel Committee using either mini coax, Type 1 shielded twisted pair, twinax or video cable. The technology now exists to upgrade data transmission rates on current physical media to speeds formerly only available with fiber optic cabling. Copper transceiver technology provides a cost effective alternative for dealing with demanding high speed applications such as high speed serial data transfer, high speed disk and tape storage transfer, imaging telemetry, radar, and other avionics applications. Eye diagrams will be presented to show that excellent data transmission at rates of 1 gigabit/sec with low jitter is capable over mini coax at distances to approximately 50 meters, shielded twisted pair and twinax cable to distances of 105 meters, and video cable to distances of 175 meters. Distances are further at lower data rates. As a member of the X3T11 ANSI Fiber Channel Committee, Technitrol has developed a Physical Media (copper wire) Dependant (PMD) transceiver not only compliant with the Fibre Channel Specifications but exceeding the specifications by a factor greater than four. Conceivably, this opens high speed interconnections for today's high data rate requirements to copper cabling systems. Fibre Optic problems need not be dealt with to obtain data transfers for high speed information transfers.

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Michael Jay Leib "Copper link evaluations/solutions for fiber channel, SSA, SONET, ATM, and other services through 4 Gb/sec: basic information, test results, and evaluation", Proc. SPIE 2608, Emerging High-Speed Local-Area Networks and Wide-Area Networks, (1 October 1995); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.224201

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Signal attenuation

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