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How to Handle the Increasing Data Demands on Server-Farm Cabling

Dec. 27, 2024

Point2 Technology’s David Kuo explains how e-Tube technology combats the limitations of copper cabling by leveraging mmWave transmitter/receiver SoCs and a dielectric waveguide.

Alix Paultre

Related To: Electronic Design

The amount of data that a server farm, regardless of its size, must manage is tremendous. This data-management challenge isn’t just at the board level, it’s also a challenge in the cables and interconnect between the modules and their racks.

Point2 Technology’s e-Tube technology helps overcome the limitations of conventional copper cabling while eliminating the power, latency, and cost of optical solutions to provide multi-terabit interconnectivity. e-Tube transmits data wirelessly using millimeter-wave RF transmitter/receiver SoCs through a dielectric waveguide—the e-Tube Core—made of common plastic material.

In this podcast, we talk to David Kuo, Associate Vice President, Product Marketing and Business Development, at Point2 Technology, about e-Tube technology and its benefits.

About the Author

Alix Paultre | Editor-at-Large, Electronic Design

An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the US military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications in the embedded electronic engineering space. Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.

Also check out his YouTube watch-collecting channel, Talking Timepieces.