The HiWire Consortium, a non-profit corporation supporting the advancement and adoption of HiWire Active Electrical Cables (AECs), announced today the release of the HiWire Active Electrical Cable Specification Draft v0.1 to its Consortium members. “We’ve been working closely with members and customers to define a spec that we believe will be widely adopted by the industry as the need to deploy 400G platforms that are reliable, low power, readily available, and support the cost budgets for next generation networks accelerates”, said Sheng Huang, President of the HiWire Consortium

Membership continues to expand as value of Active Electrical Cables is realized

The HiWire Consortium welcomes Celestica as its newest member, joining other members in the promotion of HiWire AECs (Active Electrical Cables) as a reliable, plug & play, cost effective alternative to copper and optics at 400G and beyond. Celestica has adopted AEC as the solution to connect the building blocks of their Cloud Service Provider solution architecture.