Amphenol’s Mini-SAS external I/O connector system consists of a die-cast metal cage and a compact multi-lane SMT connector. Mini-SAS can support Fiber Channel and InfiniBand standards making it the perfect solution to the ever-growing demand of high-speed mass storage systems, servers and storage area networks. Amphenol’s Mini-SAS provides four serial send/receive channels per port, provides signal speeds of 6 Gbps per channel across the connector interface and is designed to satisfy the needs for gigabit serial data transmission applications. The cage is mounted separately to the body so the stress imposed by insertion and removal of the cable plug does not affect the signal/body solder joints. The connector is available with unique solder hold-down tabs designed to provide additional mechanical robustness in more demanding applications.