Finisar at Supercomputing09: Event Wrap-Up

What a week at SC09 in beautiful Portland. Maybe the weather was a little chilly but with over 10,000 attendees this was definitely the hot event in the HPC community. Looking at the traffic at Finisar and the booths of other optics companies it has become obvious that HPC and optics connect in a big way. From OEMs to System Integrators to the actual End-User, Active Optical Cables are becoming the interconnect of choice when it comes to InfiniBand QDR and 10GbE Cluster Installations.

With respect to InfiniBand, our Quadwire™ cables helped to connect this year’s SCinet Network and Mellanox’s intrabooth connections. On the 10GbE side we powered a link in the Myricom booth and demonstrated Network convergence of InfiniBand and 10GbE in a live demonstration at the Mellanox booth with our Laserwire® (www.laserwire.org) product.

In case you missed our Second Source Partnership announcement with Foxconn shortly before SC09, please read about it here.

At our booth we had a number of industry first demonstrations including: the first active optical cable implementation of a CXP to 3x QSFP breakout cable, a Laserwire® active copper cable, and a QSFP to Laserwire adapter.

Let’s not forget the fantastic Laserwire Girl who was cruising the show floor promoting our Laserwire cable technology.

And if you were one of the folks to enter our iPOD competition on guessing the weight savings comparing a 10m cat6a cable with a 10m Laserwire cable, then you’ll be excited to know the results of this contest to be announced later next week. So be sure to check back soon.

I look forward to any comments or experiences you would like to share from SC09.