Infiniband Cables

CS Electronics offers a variety of Infiniband cables, in 1X, 4X, and 12X interfaces.
Infiniband covers a wide range of protocols, from early SAS to SDR, DDR, and QDR CX4 spec cables.
The 1X Infiniband connector spec is the ‘HSSDC2’, the 4X Infiniband connector spec is the SFF-8470, and the 12X connector spec is the SFF-8642. We offer ‘hybrid’ cable styles for connecting network equipment with different connector types. The InfiniBand architecture defines multiple devices for system communication
See our offering or QSFP+ Cables for Infiniband QDR here.

Infiniband provides 2.5Gb/s speeds per channel aggregates to 10Gb/s on a 4X cable and 30Gb/s on a 12x cable.

Product Features:
● Infiniband cables are supported by all the major OEM server vendors
● Infiniband cables have 3 link speeds:
   1X -2.5 Gb/s (4 Wire)
   4X -10 Gb/s (16 Wire)
   8X – 30 Gb/s (48 Wire)
●Infiniband cables are used as PCB, Copper and Fiber Cable Interconnect

CS Electronics has incorporated 12G HD Mini-SAS connectors, SFF-8644 (External), SFF-8643 (Internal) & the newly re-designed 12Gb/s rated drive connector, SFF-8680, into both 12G HD Mini-SAS Cables and on 12G HD Mini-SAS I/O & Drive adapters. We also have an extensive line of ‘hybrid’ cables utilizing SAS, Mini-SAS, and 12G HD Mini-SAS connectors such as SFF-8644, SFF-8643, SFF-8088, SFF-8087, SFF-8470 in most any connector configuration and length option.

Connector Info:
SFF-8644 | SFF-8643 | SFF-8680 | SFF-8639 | SFF-8088 | SFF-8087 | SFF-8482 | SFF-8484 | SFF-8431 | SFF-8436 | SFF-8470


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