Acronyms and Abbreviations
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 |