The following terms, abbreviations, and acronyms are used in this document.
| Term | Description |
|---|---|
ACC | active copper cables |
AOC | active optical cables |
APC | Angled Polished Connector |
BER | bit error ratio |
ConnectX® | NVIDIA network adapter product family for InfiniBand and Ethernet |
DAC | direct attached copper cable |
DPU | data processing unit, e.g. NVIDIA BlueField® products |
finned top | extra cooling fins on top of the form-factor plug |
flat top | as opposed to finned top |
LinkX | NVIDIA's cable and transceivers product line |
MPO | Multiple-Push-On |
NRZ | Non-Return-to-Zero |
NVIDIA Quantum | NVIDIA InfiniBand switch product line |
NVIDIA Spectrum™ | NVIDIA Ethernet switch product line |
OSFP | octal small form-factor plug |
PAM4 | Pulse Amplitude Modulation to 4-levels |
UPC | Ultra-flat Polished Connector |
