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<strong>Veritas</strong> <strong>et</strong> <strong>Visus</strong> <strong>Display</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> February 2009<br />
The costs of the optoelectronics devices used to create AOCs are expected to continue to decline as volume demand<br />
for these units grows over the rapidly expanding AOC products now entering the mark<strong>et</strong>. As more and more AOC<br />
product types ramp, material cost savings will help expand the overall mark<strong>et</strong>, helping make AOCs more<br />
ubiquitous. Make no mistake, copper cabling will still be around for many years, especially in the shorter cable<br />
versions, but we should start to see a shift towards optical interconnects which should only grow as systems OEMs<br />
continue to press for higher performance both inside and outside their boxes. While many people are attracted to<br />
wireless linkage of their equipment, in many cases a cable connection using AOCs will prove far more effective in<br />
terms of overall delivered bandwidth and connection reliability, especially in areas where real-time data delivery is<br />
critical. While we do not have the space in this article to cover the topic, link bit-error rates re becoming far more<br />
critical in many applications, from supercomputers to HD displays using one channel to transfer combined video<br />
plus audio traffic. Stay tuned as we prepare another article to address this critical performance element of all links,<br />
copper and AOC alike.<br />
1<br />
Contact Information Gatekeepers, Inc. at http://www.igigroup.com/ for further information on the January 2009<br />
edition of the Active Optical Cables: Mark<strong>et</strong> Report 2009<br />
2<br />
Contact Solutions By Design (tbits@mac.com or KaanapaliTom@yahoo.com) for more information on<br />
PowerForecaster and related 3D forecast management tools.<br />
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