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Quellan, Inc.
2900 Gordon Ave.
Santa Clara, CA, 95051
USA
Press release date: January 30, 2007
Quellan Unveils Breakthrough Interconnect for Mega Data Centers
Industry's thinnest, lightest active cable improves the speed, reach and airflow to revolutionize next generation Data Centers.
SANTA CLARA, Calif., DesignCon 2007, Jan. 30 -- Quellan Incorporated, a leader in noise cancellation ICs, in collaboration with Leoni, today announced the availability of the world's smallest gauge active cable for use in today's mega data centers. Embedding Quellan's Q:Active components in each end of a passive cable boosts signals and reduces noise yielding a decrease in cable diameter by 70% while increasing cable reach up to three times that of traditional passive cabling.
"The need for extended interconnect reach, reduced weight and latency and increased air flow is of paramount importance to next generation data centers," said Lloyd Dickman, CTO, System Interconnect Group, QLogic. "Quellan has clearly demonstrated that their active cable collaboration has yielded an innovative family of products to meet this burgeoning market need."
With passive cables, the propagating data is attenuated and distorted; a problem compounded with higher data rates and smaller gauge cabling. With Quellan's Q:Active technology embedded inside connectors, the impairments are removed and cabling can now run 3 to 4 times farther, and operate at 1/3 the diameter of current cabling options.
"Our data center customers have been clamoring for lighter, longer reach, and lower powered interconnects to alleviate the weight and bulk problems associated with today's mega data centers," said Henning Hansen, General Manager of Leoni, North America." By activating our advanced cable technology with Q:Active from Quellan, we can solve this problem and revolutionize the industry."
Mega data centers currently utilize interconnect conduits that reach 12 feet in diameter and weigh as much as 3 tons. Q:Active reduces the weight of these conduits to just a fraction of existing deployments. This results in dramatically increased air flow, lower overall power consumption and greater density in the data center.
Quellan will demonstrate its Q:Active technology for both 10 Gigabit Ethernet, CX4 and Double Data Rate Infiniband at Silicon Valley's DesignCon Technical Conference, booth 112.
About Quellan
Quellan's adaptive Noise Cancellation chips are a subset of the ever expanding Analog IC market, expected to grow to $47B in 2007. Quellan serves the Enterprise, Telecom, Broadcast, Automotive and Consumer Electronics markets with ultra-low power devices that improve the performance of datacenter interconnects, wireless handsets, laptop computers and game consoles. For more information visit quellan.com; email pressrelations@quellan.com.
CONTACT: Kristen Domingo of Quellan, +1-408-625-2200, or pressrelations@quellan.com
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