Meritec's Newest Addition: The 
Road Runner Family of Products

 

Meritec’s new ROAD RUNNER Family of Products is Meritec’s innovative solution for a high speed, high density co-planar board-to-board interconnect. It is capable of over 1,000 single-ended signals per connector with a density of over 114 signals per linear inch. The Road Runner Modular Connector System includes Power Wafers (3 buses per wafer), Single Mode Wafers (9 signals per wafer) and Differential Mode Wafers 

(4 pairs per wafer) that can be arranged per our Customer’s specific requirements. This Interconnection System supports modular add-on boxes for Central Office Switches, Access and Edge Devices, Datacom Routers and Enterprise Storage Subsystems. 

hese High-density High Pin-count Connectors are utilized within highest slot/blade count servers and storage expanded backplane systems. Co-planar test board applications using Road Runner are supported with single-ended and differential signaling modules along with power modules. Large system motherboards with co-planar "personality add-in cards" are using Road Runner modular I/O press-fit hermaphroditic connectors.

Large scale mirrored fault-tolerant servers and electrical SONET Communications Failover Backplane Systems can be implemented with co-planar Road Runner "Bridge" Connectors. High-end Video servers with expanded backplanes using Road Runner Connectors support SMPTE 1.5 Gbs Serial Digital Interfaces as well as the HOTLINK-II™ Modular Interface.

 

Price/Performance optimized co-planar board-to-board solutions for connecting:

  • PCI, PCI-X value-added co-backplanes
  • HyperTransport value-added backplanes
  • Parallel Rapid I/O value-added backplanes
  • Multiple ATM, IP, Frame Relay and SS7 Interfaces
  • Multiple H.110, Utopia Telephony Interfaces
  • Multiple T3, E3, DS3, DSL, ISDN Interfaces
  • StarFabric 2.488Gbs 4-pair Interfaces
  • Multiple LVDS 840Mbs Interfaces
  • Multiple 1.25Gbs Ethernet Interfaces
  • Multiple 1.0625Gbs FibreChannel Interfaces
  • Multiple Custom I/O & DC Power Interfaces

Test Report: Comparison of Electrical Characteristics of Meritec's Road Runner 
and Teradyne's VHDM-RAM® Single-ended 50 ohm Co-planer Connectors




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