element14 intros new FCI XCede backplane connector systems in Asia Pacific

SINGAPORE: element14 (formerly Farnell), the industry’s first fusion of commerce and community supporting engineers and purchasing professionals worldwide, announced it will stock FCI XCede vertical backplane headers and right-angle daughter card receptacles. Offering 25Gb/s performance, the XCede connector system provides engineers with a clear long-term migration path for the equipment platforms they design to enable higher speed signaling and higher levels of performance.

FCI is one of the world’s largest connector manufacturers and the XCede connectors address design engineers requirements for higher linear signal density at the backplane or midplane interface, and also provide the ruggedness and long-term reliability needed in today’s high-end systems. The use of advanced engineering polymers in a resonance-damping shield eliminates crosstalk resonances and enables very low crosstalk across a wide frequency range.

The versatile nature of these innovative solutions from FCI allow them to be used in a wide variety of applications that demand high performance in Communications, Data Storage and Transfer, Industrial, Medical, and Test and Measurement.

“As consumer and industrial requirements drive the demand for more intuitive and compact end products, engineers demand increasingly sophisticated, high performance components and solutions to meet complex designs requirements,” says Kelvin Ng, Asia Pacific Distribution director, FCI Electronics. “Through our strategic partnership with element14, we aim to provide design engineers across the Asia Pacific with connector solutions of the highest quality to overcome their challenges.”

“Our latest partnership with FCI brings a very relevant and exciting new range for the high-speed backplane market and we are pleased to bring it to design engineers across the Asia Pacific,” said Marc Grange, head of Product Management, element14, Asia Pacific. “Working closely with FCI, our customers can easily access their entire range of high performance connector solutions and our technical expertise through any of our channels as well as our online community.”