3M™︎ Twin Axial Cable SL8800 Series

3M Twin Axial Cable

SL8800 Series

Your system should be built around performance, not around your cables.

The 3M Internal Twin Axial Ribbon Cable SL8800 Series is a new ultra low-profile, high-speed, high signal density cable. The products in the SL8800 Series are only the first of a new family of high-performance cables from 3M.

Currently available in four-channel 100 ohm 30 AWG versions, the SL8800 Series.

Cable is the optimum solution for space-constrained systems. This cable is unjacketed, extremely thin, and very flexible and can even be folded with minimal loss or performance impact. Some high density offerings sacrifice performance to achieve density. For example, flex circuits are often used for tight packaging requirements, but flex circuitry can be cost prohibitive and can have limited bandwidth. SL8800 Series Cable can route along the sides of cabinets and through narrow openings in densely packaged equipment with little to no effect on performance.

No compromises

The SL8800 Series Cable is not just for densely packaged systems. The electrical performance places this cable in an elite category for skew control, low attenuation and high bandwidth. Even if your system does not require low-profile cable, the SL8800 Series still provides you with a quality high performance cable for your high-speed signal requirements.

SL8800 Cable Series is a longitudinally shielded cable construction and is made to exacting tolerances. The cable suffers little to no resonance or “suck out,” where traditionally spiral wrapped twin axial cables exhibit an enormous loss of signal at a particular range of frequency. The cable is also low skew, and the ribbon construction allows customers to further control any skew that can sometimes be introduced when trying to manage individual channels. This is especially critical at speeds beyond 10 Gbps. High speed applications continue to demand more performance out of the cables, and the SL8800 Series Cable will deliver that performance for years to come.

As signal speeds continue to increase, cable can improve but the termination can still be a weak point. The SL8800 Series Cable standard ribbon format supports high performance termination, repeatability, and a reduced possibility for pinout error. When stripped in parallel, and then applied in parallel, each channel results in an identical termination length. Control and placement of individual channels is not required, eliminating the variation in performance and rework due to

incorrect placement.

3M Twin Axial Cable SL8800 Series is longitudinally shielded and made to exacting tolerances.

3M Twin Axial Cable SL8800 Series exhibits low loss and no “suckout.”