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TriQuint honours Richardson RFPD as best distributor


The award recognises Richardson RFPD’s overall contribution to TriQuint’s growth, including high level of responsiveness to customers, increasing design wins, and technical support.


Richardson RFPD has announced that for the second consecutive year, it has received the “Top Distributor of the Year” award from TriQuint Semiconductor, a leading RF solutions supplier and technology innovator.


“It is very gratifying to win this award two years in a row from one of our top suppliers,” said Greg Peloquin, President of Richardson RFPD. “TriQuint’s broad portfolio of leading-edge technology products, combined with our global strategy of engineer-focused distribution continues to drive numerous design wins.”


Award winners were chosen based on nominations by members of TriQuint’s executive sales team and announced at TriQuint’s 2011 sales conference.


Lasers Avago debuts first 16 Gigabit fibre channel transceiver


The new module, which incorporates an 850 nm gallium arsenide based VCSEL, is claimed to increase port density and deliver twice the data bandwidth of the current generation of fibre channel devices at nearly the same power level.


Avago Technologies has announced production availability of a 16 Gigabit Fibre Channel transceiver with industry-standard signalling rates up to 14.025 GBd.


The new AFBR-57F5PZ SFP+ transceivers support high-speed serial links over multimode optical fibre with double the data throughput of existing 8 Gigabit Fibre Channel modules. The modules address 16 Gigabit Fibre Channel switches, routers, host bus adapters, RAID controllers, tape drives and video switching, as well as inter-switch and inter-chassis aggregated links.


The AFBR-57F5PZ SFP+ transceiver reduces the number of ports required for inter-switch connectivity by a factor of two compared to existing 8 Gigabit Fibre Channel solutions and operates at essentially the same power level. The SFP+ module’s transmitter and receiver can operate at different data rates, as is often required during Fibre Channel speed negotiation. The module maintains compatibility with legacy 8 Gigabit and 4 Gigabit Fibre Channel devices, simplifying design migration.


“Our new 16 Gigabit Fibre Channel SFP+ module continues the Avago tradition of setting new performance standards and bringing innovative form-factors to market first,” said Victor Krutul, director of marketing for the Fiber Optics Products Division at Avago. “Avago has worked closely with our top customers to develop solutions with the bandwidth and port-density they require, which has helped us to establish a position as the market’s leading Fibre Channel optical supplier in the storage networking segment.”


The AFBR-57F5PZ transceiver incorporates Avago’s 850 nm Vertical-Cavity Surface Emitting


112 www.compoundsemiconductor.net August/September 2011


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