MPOptimate Data Center Design
To meet today's data center design and application requirements, an MPO based fiber cabling system must fulfill the following criteria:
- Hierarchical and functional elements of the data center cabling standards EN 50173-5 and ISO/IEC 24764
- Cabling standards performance requirements - EN 50173-1 and ISO/IEC 11801
- Performance requirements of 10 Gb/s applications
Traditional MPO based fiber cabling systems such as the MPO system meet these requirements but due to optical performance allow no more than two MPO based cassettes plus one MPO trunk cable per channel/cabling subsystem.
Graphic 1 illustrates this relationship. Assuming a full fiber data center as shown here, the data signal has to be re-amplified (repeated) between two channels in order to be transmitted through the next cabling section. The switches located between the data center subsystems are re-amplifying the data signal.
Due to its industry leading optical performance, the new MPOptimate fiber cabling system exceeds the performance of traditional MPO systems by far and provides additional features and benefits for data center owners. Because it features the lowest insertion loss and return loss performance MPOptimate allows:
- the most flexible data center design for 10 Gb/s transmission
- lower power consumption because fewer electronics are required for signal re-amplification
- a future proof migration path towards 40 and 100 Gb/s Ethernet
Graphic 2 gives an overview of the MPOptimate advantages – full fiber cabling in data centers according to EN 50173-5 using MPOptimate cabling without signal re-amplification.
Tyco Electronics AMP NETCONNECT is commited to deliver engineered solutions with high value for data center customers. In accordance with this statement, MPOptimate successfully converts of today's and tomorrow's data center demands into an effective fiber optic cabling system.