This deck introduces the Panduit Signature Core Fiber Optic Cabling System, a complete end-to-end solution for high speed applications that enables users to implement 40G in virtually any data center using multimode optics.

1. Signature Core™
Fiber Optic Cabling System
1/29/2013

2. Agenda
• Issues facing data center professionals
• Distortion and its impact on system performance
• How Signature Core™ Fiber Optics Cabling System corrects distortion
• The impact of deploying Signature Core™ System in the data center
• Wrap up

3. Challenges Facing Data Center Professionals
• Increasing demands on the data center
– Implementing state-of-the-art
architectures
• Future proofing
– Making sure what is being installed
today will work tomorrow
• Peace of mind
– Rising expectations about performance
and reliability
• Reducing capital & operating
expenditures
– More and more pressure to reduce
costs

4. Distortion and Impact on Network Performance
• Distortion
– Stream of ―1s‖ and ―0s‖
• Pulses spread out as it moves through the ―media‖
• Receiver has a hard time distinguishing between the ―1s‖ and ―0s‖ causing errors

5. Distortion in Multimode Fiber
• What is a fiber mode?
– Laser light enters the fiber and splits into separate rays called modes
– Each mode travels in the fiber along a unique optical path
– Single mode fiber is just that — Allows only one mode or ray
• Mode distortion
– Different modes  Paths with different lengths  Different travel times

6. Mode Distortion at Work
Input Output
Optical
Transmitter Multimode Fiber
• Laser optimized multimode fiber corrects for this distortion
– Speeds up the modes traveling the longer paths
– Keeps the individual modes (pulses) aligned
• Predominate multimode fiber sold today

7. 10 Gig & Above — What Is Limiting Performance?
• Performance
– Reach
• 150m for 40G/100G Ethernet
• 100m for 32G FC?
– New data center architectures
– Future proofing
• Above about 8Gig another type of distortion
comes into play
• Chromatic dispersion
– Same effect as a prism

8. Chromatic Dispersion at Work
• Lasers used in optical modules have a ―spread‖ of wavelengths
Input Output
Modes
are
skewed
Laser
Multimode Fiber
Different
Wavelengths
• Same impact as modal dispersion
• Laser phenomenon uncovered by Panduit Labs

9. Signature Core™ System Corrects Chromatic Dispersion
Input Output
Modes
are
aligned!
Laser
Different
Wavelengths
• Signature Core™ is the next generation in multimode optical fiber!
– Corrects for modal AND chromatic distortion

10. How Signature Core™ System Helps Solve DC Issues
• Highest system performance possible — exceeding all other distance claims
• Flexibility
– DC layout may depend on the length of the fiber optic links
– Signature Core™ expands layout options
• Implement state-of-the-art DC architectures
– Top-of-rack
• True top-of-rack fabric extenders using low cost optical modules
• Modules only reach 100M without Signature Core™ limiting this architecture
• Signature Core™ makes this implementation practical
– Ability to add more connectivity
• Reduces capital expenditures
– Able to use multimode fiber and optical modules rather than single mode
– Savings thousands of dollars per link
• Future proof
– Extra headroom allows migration to 40G/100G Ethernet and 16G/32G Fibre Channel

11. How Signature Core™ System Helps
Signature Core
Reduce packet error System’s lower Bit
Latency rate – Lowers number
of packet resends
Error Rate (BER)
lowers packet error
rate
Signature Core’s
System’s superior
Deploy a high-
performance and high
Availability reliability networking
infrastructure
quality connectivity
provides the needed
reliability
Signature Core™
Tied to
System allows the
bandwidth, payload
Throughput size and packet error
use of larger packets
and reduced Packet
rate
Error Rate (PER)

12. Signature Core™ System Product Line
A complete line of multimode fiber optic products
QuickNet™ MTP
QuickNet™ SFQ
Interconnect Cable
MTP Cassettes
Assemblies
QuickNet™ Trunk QuickNet™ Hydra
Cable Assemblies Cable Assemblies

13. Wrap Up
• Distortion in multimode fiber
– Modal: Fixed by laser optimized fiber
– Chromatic: THE limiting impairment at 8 Gig and
above
• Signature Core™ System multimode fiber corrects
for chromatic distortion
• Signature Core™ System provides
– Cost savings ½ the cost of single mode fiber
– Flexibility Implement state-of-the-art architectures
– Future proof 40/100G Ethernet & 16/32 G FC
• Signature Core™ System improves
– Throughput
– Availability
– Latency
• Full fiber optic product line

14. building a smarter, unified foundation
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