Many of the Infiniband transceivers with receptacle are duplex fiber or parallel fiber based. Since AI demand with enormous fiber needed. Data rates and the number of fibers required in this environment are increasing whilst the demand for improved efficiency is being asked of every installed system.
AI data center required lots of computing capacity and storage capacity, that, it mainly start with 800G, 800G OSFP or QSFP-DD transceivers support both single mode and multimode fiber.. When compared side by side with the roadmap of Gen AI hardware manufacturers, its apparent that these higher speeds are going to be required sooner than the industry first expected.
MPO-8 based system is sufficient to support many parallel data rates and can be used to aggregate 4x duplex data rates (e.g., 10G, 25G, 50G or 100G). Whereas MPO-16 can support native 16-fiber applications, (or 2x 8-fiber applications), and 8x duplex-based transmission standards all over a single fiber trunk cable, making it a dense fiber connector option. When the request for a 16-fiber transmission standard is required for higher speeds (i.e., 8 Tx fibers and 8 Rx fibers), using an MPO-8 cabling system can make the management and installation of the backbone complex.
When using MPO-8 connectivity to support a 16-fiber parallel system, 2x MPO-8 trunks will needed to be used. It can bring space savings to pathways and conduits when compared to deploying two MPO-8 trunk cables. (See the diagram opposite).
