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1. NX High Performance Cables
January 2009

2. Applications
• InfiniBand
• Ethernet 10GbaseCX4
• SAS – Serial Attached SCSI
• Rapid I/O
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3. NX Features
• Direct attach of wire to cable plug contact
via laser welding
– Consistent low loss termination
– Least disruptive to high speed signal
• Wafer construction
– Open access for wire termination
– Large ground reference between pairs
– Flexible design for special circuit sizes
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4. NX Features
• Superior inter-pair shielding
– Inter-pair Ground Shield minimizes xtalk
– Maintains ground reference plane for
improved impedance control
• Multiple back shell options
– Straight and angled
– Jack screw or pull to release latch
– The most user friendly latch in the industry
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5. Wafer Termination Process
Inter-wafer Ground Shield
Terminated Wafer
is Added
SubAssembly
Ground shield commoning
bus contact feature
Unique cable design turns metallized side of Mylar on outside
of wrap with drain wires external to differential wire pair
The cable’s foil shield and the inter-wafer shield provide excellent signal
isolation and multi-line crosstalk below 2% at risetimes of 50psec
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6. Cable Cross Section
Aluminized Mylar on Aluminized Mylar on
Drain Wire
Inside of Twin-Ax Shield Outside of Twin-Ax
Shield
Twin-Ax Typical Construction Twin-Ax Cinch / Meritec Construction
Asymmetric Electrical Field Symmetric Electrical Field
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7. Wire Termination
Wafer Body
Heat Staked
Differential Wire Strain
Contact Pair Relief
Welded terminations on all signal lines
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8. Terminated Wafer Array
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9. Connector Assembly Process
Wafers are stacked
and pinned together
to form Connector
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10. Connector Assembly Process
Ground shield commoning bus is added
and ground drain wires are attached to
the commoning bus
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11. Connector Assembly Process
After wafer stacking and assembly, the stack is over
molded to provide strain relief for the wires and ground
bus and insulate the cable shield from the backshell
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12. The Difference - Cinch NX
Competitor
Cinch NX
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13. NX Cable Backshell Options
Angled Jackscrew
Angled Latch
Right or left exit
Right or left exit
Z-axis jackscrew
(also available in latch
version)
Straight Jackscrew Straight Latch
12X Jackscrew
(also available in latch version)
January 2009

14. Competitive Latching
The Gore latch requires the
installer to push the latch
mechanism forward either
before or after plugging to
activate and close the
latches.
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15. Competitive Latching
Gore cable plugged in to a
switch with only one of the
latches actuated and
latched
Gore cable plugged in to
switch with neither latch
actuated.
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16. Cable Handling - Gore
Eyeopenner+ cable supplied by Gore is made with foamed Teflon
dielectric surrounding the conductors. While this is an excellent
dielectric, it presents handling issues the NX cable construction does
not. This label appears on each cable that Gore ships advising the
installer to “handle with care” – a requirement that is not very practical for
an installer in a data center. January 2009

17. Competitive Latching
If the switch is installed on a shelf
or near an obstruction, it is nearly
impossible to grasp cable plug
latch release.
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18. Competitive Latching
The Molex pinch latch
design can cause
inadvertent unlatching of
adjacent connector.
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19. Cinch Latch Pull
The Cinch latch pull is easily
accessible even when obstructions
make competitive latch release bars
difficult or impossible to grasp. The
design features an audible click when
fully plugged indicating it is latched.
Cinch NX Cable
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20. Cinch Latch Options
Standard Straight
Angled
Belly to Belly
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21. NX High Speed Performance
In-depth Information can be provide
to customer when requested that
shows competition vs. Cinch.
January 2009

22. Reference Cable Lengths
10dB Cables in Worst Switch Port
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23. Conclusions
Parameter Result
S21 • Best margin
S11 • Best margin
XTLK • Lowest
Zo • Best control
ILD • Tightest grouping
Skew • Least variation
Variation • Smallest delta
January 2009

24. Conclusions
• So What?
• Why are these differences so important?
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25. Conclusions
• Extended distance without EQ
– Less expensive
• Consistent performance
– Cable to cable
– Lot to lot
• September 2008 IBTA Plugfest
– 10 DDR cables listed
– 5 QDR cables listed
• The most backshell options in the industry
• The most user friendly latch system
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28. Future Products
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29. Roadmap Connectors
• QSFP
– Passive
– Passive EQ
– Active EQ
• SFP/SFP+
• miniSAS
• CXP 12X
• Cinch is formulating designs currently
January 2009

30. Thank You
January 2009