Quellan Unveils Breakthrough Interconnect for Mega Data Centers

Quellan Unveils Breakthrough Interconnect for Mega Data Centers

January 30, 2007

Industry's thinnest, lightest active cable improves the
speed, reach and airflow to revolutionize next generation
Data Centers.


    SANTA CLARA, Calif., DesignCon 2007, Jan. 30
/Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Quellan Incorporated, a leader in
noise cancellation ICs, in collaboration with Leoni, today
announced the availability of the world's smallest gauge
active cable for use in today's mega data centers.
Embedding Quellan's Q:Active components in each end of a
passive cable boosts signals and reduces noise yielding a
decrease in cable diameter by 70% while increasing cable
reach up to three times that of traditional passive
cabling.

    "The need for extended interconnect reach, reduced
weight and latency and increased air flow is of paramount
importance to next generation data centers," said
Lloyd Dickman, CTO, System Interconnect Group, QLogic.
"Quellan has clearly demonstrated that their active
cable collaboration has yielded an innovative family of
products to meet this burgeoning market need."

    With passive cables, the propagating data is attenuated
and distorted; a problem compounded with higher data rates
and smaller gauge cabling. With Quellan's Q:Active
technology embedded inside connectors, the impairments are
removed and cabling can now run 3 to 4 times farther, and
operate at 1/3 the diameter of current cabling options. 

    "Our data center customers have been clamoring for
lighter, longer reach, and lower powered interconnects to
alleviate the weight and bulk problems associated with
today's mega data centers," said Henning Hansen,
General Manager of Leoni, North America." By
activating our advanced cable technology with Q:Active from
Quellan, we can solve this problem and revolutionize the
industry."

    Mega data centers currently utilize interconnect
conduits that reach 12 feet in diameter and weigh as much
as 3 tons. Q:Active reduces the weight of these conduits to
just a fraction of existing deployments.  This results in
dramatically increased air flow, lower overall power
consumption and greater density in the data center.

    Quellan will demonstrate its Q:Active technology for
both 10 Gigabit Ethernet, CX4 and Double Data Rate
Infiniband at Silicon Valley's DesignCon Technical
Conference, booth 112. 

    About Quellan

    Quellan's adaptive Noise Cancellation chips are a
subset of the ever expanding Analog IC market, expected to
grow to US$47B in 2007. Quellan serves the Enterprise,
Telecom, Broadcast, Automotive and Consumer Electronics
markets with ultra-low power devices that improve the
performance of datacenter interconnects, wireless handsets,
laptop computers and game consoles.  For more information
visit http://www.quellan.com ; email
[e-mail]. 


    For more information, please contact:

     Kristen Domingo 
     Quellan
     Tel:   [phone]
     Email: [e-mail]


SOURCE  Quellan Incorporated