Active Optical Cable (AOC) application is a video and consumer electronics markets. 4K, 8K ultra-high resolution image is gradually into people's lives, these products and their applications involve the transmission of large amounts of data, but also need the support of optical interconnection technology.

Data center / cloud computing system needs higher bandwidth and lower power consumption and more urgent, AOC is one of the best solutions to meet this demand. AOC (active optical cables) compared with the copper interconnect has many significant advantages, such as lower on the system link transmission power, weighs only a quarter of direct-attached copper, copper-half volume slightly, and room cabling system has better air flow heat dissipation than copper cable bend radius can be made smaller, over longer distances (up to 100 to 300 meters), and the error rate is also better transmission performance , BER can reach 10 ^ -15. Compared with the optical transceiver module, AOC is not exposed due to the presence of optical interface, optical interface clean and contaminated problem does not exist, the system greatly enhanced stability and reliability, and reduce maintenance costs the engine room.

Active Optical Cable Products is one of the main interconnection between these core devices, the active optical cable market research report from CIR's display, its market size in 2012 reached $ 720 million, this figure is expected to double by 2017, reaching $ 1.9 billion, promising.