February 6, 2011 – Siemon released a 6Gb/s per lane mini-SAS to mini-SAS external passive copper cable assembly product. These mini-SAS cables support the connection of 6Gb/s Host Controller Adapters to 6Gb/s SAS switches as well as supporting legacy 3Gb/s applications in the installed base. These external mini-SAS cable assemblies feature low profile backshell design design enables easy access and removal in tight fitting, high-density storage applications. The assemblies are available in 30 AWG, 28 AWG and 26 AWG cable in standard lengths from 0.5 to 5 meters.
Siemon’s four lane mini-SAS cables exceed the requirements of the ANSI INCITS T10 SAS 2.1 specification as well as the SFF-8088 specification. These cables also support other 3-6Gb/s IO per lane protocol, copper cabled interfaces like SATA-2, SATA-3, RapidIO, XAUI-2, Aurora and NUMA. Mini-SAS four lane cables can support 24+Gb/s link performance and are ideal for low profile storage, server, video and other point-to-point network cabling applications in blade to box, rack to rack and shelf to shelf configurations.
This interconnect is part of the Siemon's high speed interconnect family, which includes their Moray QSFP+ Active Optical Cable assemblies, QSFP+ and SFP+ passive copper cable assemblies, SFF-8470 CX4/IB/SAS cables and MTP optical fiber Plug and Play solutions as well as a variety of innovative high-performance structured cabling products.