Think of these cables as analogous to the common RJ-11 phone cords, which carry an extra line for phones and phone jacks equipped for the extra line. They contain 81 conductors at a pitch of approximately 0.012 inch. Alternate conductors, including the two outermost conductors, carry electrical ground. The cable is terminated with connectors in which central blades form a ground plane, so that the connectors introduce only a very small impedance discontinuity. The connector ports on Myrinet-SAN interfaces and switches are female.
Cables have male connectors on both ends.
Myricom originally supplied these cables in a form in which the cable-end connectors did not lock. If you do so, please tell AMP that we referred you to them, and that you need Myrinet-SAN cables , not standard cables. However, because Myrinet cables can be used to connect an interface to another interface, an interface to a switch, or a switch to a switch, they must provide a way of connecting a given output signal on one end to the corresponding input signal on the other end.