Standards key to fibre-optic system interconnect

Full compliance with industry standards is the driving force behind a complete series of building blocks for fibre-optic system interconnection from FCI.

Full compliance with industry standards for electrical and fibre optic systems and cabling is the driving force behind the development of a complete series of building blocks for fibre-optic system interconnection from FCI.

The MT Max product family meets all Futurebus, hard metric and MPO connector requirements.

Speaking at Europe's largest showcase for fibre-optic communication technology, ECOC 2001 in Amsterdam, Rob Poort, Product Manager at FCI's Fibre Optics Group commented: "By basing the MT Max product range on the MPO (IEC 1754-7) de-facto industry standard for fibre optic cabling interconnect, the difficulties associated with proprietary solutions are overcome".

He continued: "Compliance with the IEC 61076-4-104 and 101 standards for PCB card connectors on which FCIûs own Metral and MilliPacs are based means the MT Max product line also enables a smooth transition from high speed electrical to all-optical networking equipment consistent with hard metric board spacing".

Comprising backplane and system card housings, cable assemblies and harnesses, bulkhead adapters, flexible optical circuits and optical shuffles, the MT Max product family will allow equipment designers to get high-density low-loss fibre-optic interconnection at both backplane and I/O stage.

Customer sampling for the new MT Max product range will begin later this year, with volume production and a full product release scheduled for Q2 2002.

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