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| ⚫ | A type of cable similar to ], but with two inner conductors instead of one. Due to cost efficiency it is becoming common in modern very short range high speed differential signaling applications. | ||
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| ⚫ | A type of cable similar to ], but with two inner conductors instead of one. | ||
| Becoming common in modern high speed differential signaling applications. | |||
| == Current Applications == | |||
| One of major applications includes ] implementation coupled with SFP+ modules. This type of connection is able to transmit at 10 Gigabit full duplex speed over 10 meter distances. Moreover this setup offers 15 to 25 times lower transceiver latency than current 10GBASE-T CAT6/CAT6a/CAT7 cabling systems: 0.1 μs for Twinax with SFP+ versus 1.5 to 2.5 μs for current 10GBASE-T specification. The power draw of Twinax with SFP+ is around 0.1 watts, which is also much better than 4-8 watts for 10GBASE-T. | |||
| As always with cabling one of the consideration points is ] or BER for short. Twinax copper cabling has BER better than 10<sup>-18</sup> according to Cisco, and therefore is acceptable for applications in critical environments. | |||
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A type of cable similar to coax, but with two inner conductors instead of one. Due to cost efficiency it is becoming common in modern very short range high speed differential signaling applications.
Current Applications
One of major applications includes Cisco Systems implementation coupled with SFP+ modules. This type of connection is able to transmit at 10 Gigabit full duplex speed over 10 meter distances. Moreover this setup offers 15 to 25 times lower transceiver latency than current 10GBASE-T CAT6/CAT6a/CAT7 cabling systems: 0.1 μs for Twinax with SFP+ versus 1.5 to 2.5 μs for current 10GBASE-T specification. The power draw of Twinax with SFP+ is around 0.1 watts, which is also much better than 4-8 watts for 10GBASE-T.
As always with cabling one of the consideration points is Bit error ratio or BER for short. Twinax copper cabling has BER better than 10 according to Cisco, and therefore is acceptable for applications in critical environments.
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