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US Conec, Hickory, NC
Hickory, United States35.73°N 81.32°W
computed criticality19/100
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MT ferrules: de facto standard for 800G/1.6T multi-fibre connectors
2024Fault line
Very high-density connectors govern the cabling of 800G clusters: 216 VSFF connectors fit in the space of 80 conventional MPOs. A handful of precision ferrule makers, US Conec in North Carolina, Senko and the Japanese mould makers, lock down this physical interface.
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US Conec (Hickory)
Senko Advanced Components (Marlborough)
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Corning Optical Fiber, Wilmington, NCPhotonics · Link↗Feeds 1
TSMC COUPE (co-packaged optics), HsinchuPhotonics↗Sources