Acronyms and Abbreviations
The following terms, abbreviations, and acronyms are used in this document.
Term | Description |
ACC or LACC | Active Copper Cable or Linear Active Copper Cable |
AOC | Active Optical Cable |
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, IHS | Extra cooling fins on top of the form-factor plug, Integrated Heat Sink in transceiver top |
flat top, RHS | Riding Heat Sink on top of card cages |
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 |
QSFP | Quad Small Form-factor Plug |
UPC | Ultra-flat Polished Connector |