Sabritec now offers complete line of fibre channel backplane connectors.

In standard VME cards for low data rate signaling, connectors are widely available to carry non-shielded signaling for the VME bus from the interface via motherboard to daughter card assembly designated as I/O plug-in modules. The industry standard defines these connectors typically as P1 and P3 connectors.

Sabrtic offers high speed backplane connectors for Firewire 1394a and 1394b applications. Environmentally sealed connectors and associated backshell accessories are also available.

Sabritec has taken the standard housing configuration of the P1 & P3 mounting dimensions while incorporating true differential pair contacts within the P1 & P3 dimensional constraints. Data sampling rates exceeding 2 Gbits/second can be driven via matched impedance differential pair interconnections for board-to-board high speed data transfer as well as blind mate I/O plug in modular applications.

Sabritec's P1 connector housing contains 21 position true differential pair blind mate contacts allowing board designers to carry high density differential pair signals from the LRU via motherboard to daughter-card plug in modules with a single connector P1 type housing. This allows for the use of standard VME bus architecture cages for high speed fibre channel connection.

These connectors can be fitted with Twinax or Quadrax Contacts. Twinax contacts consist of two inner contacts to form 100 or 150 ohm differential impedance. Quadrax contacts consist of four center contacts (Quad configuration applications exceeding 1 Gbit/sec) forming two 100 or 150 ohm matched impedance differential pairs. These contacts have a low impedance grounding shield and are ideal for Ethernet 100 Base-T (100 Ohm), Fibre Channel (150 ohm), and IEEE 1394 Firewire (110 Ohm) applications.