The Sterling 100Gb QSFP28 active optical cable (AOC) is a high data rate parallel active optical cable designed to overcome the bandwidth limitation of traditional copper cable. The AOC offers 4 independent data transmission channels and 4 data receiving channels via the multimode ribbon fibers, each capable of 25Gb/s operation. An aggregate data rate of 100Gb/s over 100 meters transmission can be achieved with this product.