Webinar: Are 1.0 mm Precision RF Connectors Really Required for 224 Gbps-PAM4 Verification?

Presenter: Brandon Gore Awarded Best Paper at DesignCon 2024 As Ethernet and OF Standards groups begin to wrestle with the technical feasibility of 224 Gb/s (Gbps) PAM4 signaling in order to standardize electro-optical requirements of data center communication, a particular challenge of measurement verification is beginning to emerge. Previous generations of standardization have set a bandwidth minimum target as ¾ of the baud rate. This webinar will explore what is meant by bandwidth during the standardization process, the implications of test and verification attached to certain bandwidth requirements, as well as differences between acquisition range, band limited filters, and s-parameters for time domain processing.