Introduction; Key Features - Nvidia MFA7U10-H00 Series Manual

1 Introduction
NVIDIA MFA7U10 is an OSFP to 2x QSFP56, 400Gb/s to 2 x 200Gb/s Active Optical splitter Cable (AOC)
designed for connecting NVIDIA NDR and 400GbE Ethernet switches with OSFP cage, to legacy 2
HDR/200GbE switch/HCA QSFP56 cages.
The cable is compliant with SFF-8665 for the QSFP56 pluggable solution. It provides connectivity
between system units with an OSFP 400Gb/s connector on one side and two separate QSFP56
200Gb/s connectors on the other side, such as a switch and two servers. The cable connects data
signals from each of the 8 MMF (Multimode Fiber) pairs on the single OSFP end to the four pairs of
each of the QSFP56 multiport ends. Each QSFP56 and OSFP end of the cable comprises an EEPROM
providing product and status monitoring information, which can be read by the host system.
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Both Ethernet (ETH) and InfiniBand (IB) applications are supported only with ConnectX-6
cards.
Rigorous production testing ensures the best out-of-the-box installation experience, performance,
and durability.
NVIDIA's unique quality active fiber cable solutions provide power-efficient connectivity for data
center interconnects. It enables higher port bandwidth, density and configurability at a low cost,
and reduced power requirement in the data centers.
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1.1 Key Features

• 400Gb/s to 2x200Gb/s data rate
• Programmable Rx output amplitude and pre-emphasis
• OSFP head end is CMIS 4.0 compliant
• QSFP56 ends are SFF-8636 compliant
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