70-pin Connector: Tyco Electronics Harrisburg, PA www.amp.com/communications.(AMP PT70)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)

Fiberoptic Product News, May, 2001

Tyco Electronics has announced the release of the AMP PT70 connector, a 70-pin board-mounted card edge connector that will connect the new 10-Gigabit Ethernet pluggable fiber optic transceivers to the printed circuit board. The AMP connector's electrical input/output interface is based on XAUI (10G Attachment Unit Interface) protocols. The PT70 is the latest in the PT (Pluggable Transceiver) Connector Series. AMP earlier released the PT20, the connector used for the Small Form-factor Pluggable (SFP) transceiver.

The AMP PT70 connector conforms to the multi-source agreement (MSA) developed specifically for the proposed IEEE 10-Gigabit Ethernet interoperability standard, which was recently announced by Agilent Technologies and Agere Systems. The MSA specifies...

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