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Active Optical Cable (AOC)
AOC is one of the forms of DAC cable. It integrates multimode optical fiber, fiber optic transceivers, and
modules. AOCs have many benefits such as lighter weight, high performance, low power consumption, low
interconnection loss, EMI immunity, and flexibility etc. Primarily, active optical cable (AOC) assemblies were
invented to replace copper technology in data centers and high performance computing (HPC) applications. As
we know, copper passive twinax cable is heavy and bulky, making it difficult to physically manage the
datacenter. And due to the nature of electrical signals, electromagnetic interference (EMI) limits copper’s
performance and reliability.
