Samtec has a long history of offering high-speed, high-density mid-board optical transceivers. The Halo™ Next-Gen Optical Transceiver family feature 8x bi-directional channels supporting up to 112 Gbps PAM4 per lane in a low-profile 6.5 mm package. Halo™ optical, copper, and active copper systems are interchangeable using the same high-performance SMT connector. Halo™ supports multiple protocols including 10/40/100 GbE Ethernet, InfiniBand™, Fibre Channel, PCIe®, CXL® and Aurora. A variety of heat sink options enables conduction, convection, cold plates, or liquid cooling thermal relief. At ECOC, Samtec will demonstrate Halo™ operating at 56 Gbps PAM4. Please visit Stand D2 for more details.

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