Airmax VS Backplane connector system

The real beauty of the AirMax VS^® connector system lies in the flexibility it gives to board layouts. With connectors available in both 2 and 3 mm centerlines designers are able to simplify signal routing.

The scalability of the connector solution means that backplane systems designed for 3.125 – 6.25 Gb/s can be upgraded to 12.5 Gb/s operation without redesigning the basic platform. At such speed the AirMax VS^® connector demonstrates exceptionally low insertion loss and crosstalk characteristics.

By Today, “AirMax VS^® connectors are widely used in data, datacom and telecommunications equipment such as servers, storage systems and enterprise routers. AirMax VS^® is the standard connector for the standards: Storage Bridge Bay (SBB) specification, Intel^® Quick Path Interconnect (QPI^®) specification, and CompactPCI (cPCI) Plus specification.”
 

Features & Benefits

  A full set of building blocks for backplane, coplanar,mezzanine, and cable-to-board applications in Hard Metric building practices
  Innovative edge-coupling technology and air dielectric between adjacent conductors deliver lowest insertion loss and crosstalk
  High-speed serial data rates can scale from 2.5 Gb/s to data rates up to 12.5 Gb/s without requiring redesign of a basic platform
  Opposed dual-beam receptacle contact structure provides high reliability          
  Contains no interleaving shields reducing connector weight, cost and PCB routing complexity