Cisco/Mellanox Compatible 2m (6.56ft) Passive Direct Attach Copper Twinax Cable

10G SFP+ Passive Copper Twinax Cable

The SFP+ passive cable assemblies are high performance, cost effective I/O solutions for 10G Ethernet and 10G Fibre Channel applications. SFP+ copper modules allow hardware manufactures to achieve high port density, configurability and utilisation at a very low cost and reduced power budget. The high speed cable assemblies meet and exceed Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel industry standard requirements for performance and reliability.

These assemblies are called “passive” copper cables because there isn’t any signal conditioning circuitry (e.g. crosstalk or echo cancellation) contained within the SFP+ connector. Sometimes these assemblies are referred to as “DAC” or “Direct Attached Copper” cables. Inside the SFP+ MSA footprint optical cables can be used that require optical transceivers or Active Optical Cables (AOC) that contain the transceiver as part of the cable.