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Amphenol FCI ExaMax® High Speed Interconnect System

Amphenol FCI ExaMAX® High-Speed Interconnect System offers high-speed backplane and IO performance that is scalable from 25Gb/s up to 56Gb/s signal speed. Amphenol ExaMAX® Connectors are compatible with a wide range of system architectures, including backplane, midplane, midplane orthogonal, direct orthogonal, cabled backplane, coplanar, and mezzanine applications.

Features

  • Meets industry specifications such as Optical Internetworking Forum (OIC), PCI Express, SATA, Fiber Channel, Infiniband, Ethernet, SAS, IBTA, and IEEE
  • Minimizes impedance discontinuities
  • Mating compatible with ExaMAX VS, ExaMAX+, and EXAMAX2
  • Provides low crosstalk while eliminating insertion loss resonances
  • Reduces mating force up to 65% compared to traditional blade and beam designs
  • Durable, reliable mating interface design eliminates crushed pins
  • 2mm pitch for high-density application
  • 3mm pitch enables quad routing and lowers PCB cost
  • Optimizes PCB routing
  • Integrates high-speed and low-speed signals and power in the same connector
  • Optimizes electrical performance and aspect ratio
  • Wide product range for various packaging options
  • Data rates scalable from 25Gb/s to 56Gb/s to support system upgrades without costly redesigns
  • Mating compatible mating interface for 112Gb/s with EXAMAX2 connectors
  • 92Ω and 85Ω nominal impedance
  • Beam-on-beam interface
  • Hermaphroditic mating interface protects mating beams
  • Modular, hard metric connector block design
  • Zero skew in-pair
  • Additional signal pin per column
  • 0.36mm (finished hole) high-speed signal PCB hole 
  • 0.5mm (finished hole) ground pin PCB hole
  • 12 to 128 differential pair node connector
  • Integrated guide design

Applications

  • Hubs
  • Switches
  • Router
  • Optical transport
  • Wireless infrastructure
  • Servers
  • External storage system
  • Supercomputers
  • Industrial and instrumentation
  • Test equipment
  • Emulation equipment

Specifications

  • 20mV max., 100mA current contact resistance
  • 1000MΩ at 500VDC insulation resistance
  • 500VDC dielectric withstanding voltage
  • 0.5A/contact current rating

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Published: 2016-11-28 | Updated: 2025-01-21