Mr. Raouf Halim reports

SPECTRA7 AND KEYSIGHT SUCCESSFULLY ACHIEVE ROBUST PERFORMANCE TESTING OF 800GBPS ACTIVE COPPER INTERCONNECTS AND PLAN DEMONSTRATION AT DESIGNCON 2024

Spectra7 Microsystems Inc. and Keysight, a leading provider of electronic design, test, security and software solutions, have successfully achieved robust performance testing and will demonstrate their latest 800-gigabit-per-second product offerings at this year's annual DesignCon Conference Exhibition in Santa Clara, Calif., from Jan. 31 to Feb. 1, 2024. The companies plan to demonstrate robust performance and testing of 800-gigabit-per-second active copper cable (ACC) products for hyperscale data centre applications.

In the testing, Spectra7's ACCs successfully interoperated with the Keysight AresONE-M 800GE QSFP-DD800 Layer 1-3 test system at 800-gigabit-per-second speeds. Link training produced a very robust low bit error rate (BER) of 3.3e-9, which demonstrates a wide margin over standard required BER.

DesignCon is the premier high-speed interconnect and system design conference attended by engineers from around the world. The Spectra7 will be on exhibit in booth No. 1344.

"Spectra7 is integral in helping to drive the future of the data centre interconnect industry, and we are proud to collaborate with Spectra7 to demonstrate next-generation high-speed solutions," said Ram Periakaruppan, vice-president and general manager, network applications and security group, at Keysight. "This collaboration highlights our vision to build relationships that benefit our customers and partners, providing them flexible solutions for their toughest challenges."

"Keysight is a technology and market leader in the Ethernet test equipment market," said Spectra7 chief executive officer Raouf Halim. "Their validation of robust performance of our GaugeChanger technology in 800-gigabit-per-second interconnects is a significant milestone in the coming volume deployment of our data centre product line."

Spectra7's analog-based GaugeChanger GC1122 chips are used in ACCs and offer significant cost, size and energy consumption value versus competing active electrical cables (AECs) and active optical cables (AOCs) that use digital signal processing (DSP) technologies.

About Spectra7 Microsystems Inc.

Spectra7 Microsystems is a high performance analog semiconductor company delivering unprecedented bandwidth, speed and resolution to enable disruptive industrial design for leading electronics manufacturers in virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, data centres and other connectivity markets. Spectra7 is based in San Jose, Calif., with a design center in Cork, Ireland, and a technical support location in Dongguan, China.

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