Several critical design elements from Amphenol’s InfiniBand qualified CX4 QSFP cables series have been specifically optimized to handle Quad Data Rate (QDR) signal-sets at 40.0 Gbps; including the PCB layout, wire selection, die-cast backshell, programming and manufacturing processes. Mr. Blas emphasized, “In order to receive the official stamp of approval from the InfiniBand Trade Association, performance characteristics such as cross-talk, EMI, and insertion-loss must be tightly controlled. Amphenol has thoroughly addressed these issues by embracing its long-held culture of engineering excellence from concept-to-production.”This product offering has been designed to meet the emerging industry bandwidth needs of 40 Gb/s per port capability as defined by the IEEE 802.3ba specification as well as Infiniband QDR and FibreChannel. System functionality is defined by Heat Sink and meets industry standards SFF-8436 specifications and delivers 4 times the port bandwidth capability of SFP+ systems. This system is particularly well suited for high transactional systems that are typically deployed in data center, networking and high performance computing applications.