1.6T OSFP Active Electrical Cable 8×224G PAM4 | Up to 2.5 m

SKU: AEC-1.6T-OSFP

Price range: $2,888.00 through $2,966.00 VAT excl.

  • Compliant with OSFP MSA and CMIS5.2
  • Support 8x224G (PAM4) electrical data rates
  • Enables 1600Gb/s transmission
  • Link length up to 2.5m (32AWG)
  • Single +3.3V power supply
  • Operation case temperature: 0 to 70°C
  • RoHS compliant
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    The 1.6T OSFP Active Electrical Cable (AEC) is built for the most bandwidth-intensive environments in modern data centres: AI training fabrics, HPC interconnects and hyper-scale leaf-spine deployments operating at 800G and beyond. Each OSFP end integrates a high-speed DSP that independently retimes and equalises all eight 224G PAM4 lanes, sustaining a post-FEC BER below 10⁻¹⁵ at reach up to 2.5 metres — well beyond what passive copper can achieve at these data rates.
    The 60-pin OSFP connector follows the OSFP MSA mechanical specification, and the CMIS 5.2 EEPROM map enables rich per-lane monitoring (Rx power, temperature, voltage, fault flags).
    Compared to active optical cables, AECs eliminate fibre connectors, transceivers and the cleaning protocols they require, cutting both capital and operational cost for distances under 2.5 m. The slimmer 32AWG copper bundle also reduces rack airflow blockage in tightly packed GPU/ASIC trays.

    Module Form FactorOSFPManagement InterfaceI2C
    Data Rate1.6TNumber of Data Lanes8 TX and 8 RX per module (PAM4)
    Link Distance2.5mBER (Post-FEC)1.0x10-15
    Power Consumption20W(per end)Supply Voltage3.3V
    Op. Temperature0 to 70°C (32 to 158°F)ProtocolsOSFP MSA and CMIS5.2
    Length

    1m, 1.5m, 2m, 2.5m

    Interface

    OSFP

    Speed

    1.6T

    Compatible Brands

    Generic, Asterfusion, Nvidia, Juniper, Cisco

    ASIC

    A chip custom-built for one task; in a switch the forwarding ASIC moves packets in hardware at line rate.

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