Cooperation Agreement for Small Form-Factor Pluggable Transceivers Agilent Technologies, Blaze Network Products, E2O Communications, Inc., ExceLight Communications, Finisar Corporation, Fujikura Technology America Corp., Hitachi Cable, Infineon Technologies Corp., IBM Corp., Lucent Technologies, Molex, Inc., Optical Communication Products, Inc., Picolight, Inc.,
Stratos Lightwave, Tyco Electronics
I. Purpo of the Cooperation Agreement (Agreement)
Each party desires to establish internationally compatible sources of a pluggable fiber optic transceiver module in support of standards for fiber optic systems including Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), FDDI, Fibre Channel, Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet, and Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) / Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) applications. Each party further desires to establish uniformity in the industry for the Transceiver “Package Dimensions”, “Cage and Electrical Connector System”, “Host Board Layout”, “Electrical Interfaces”, and “Front Panel Bezel Requirements” as described in Appendices A-B.
Each party expects that the establishment of compatible sources for an interchangeable transceiver module will allow the entire fiber optic marketplace to grow more rapidly. This enhanced marketplace g
rowth, customer choice, and vigorous competition are the express purpos of this Agreement. Each party acknowledges this agreement provides a solution with height as a primary limiting constraint and may not provide an optimum solution for applications with different constraints.
The parties desire to establish compatible sources for additional products in the future.
II. Agreement
A. General
The parties agree to cooperate by supporting common product specifications for pluggable fiber optic transceivers with the package “Package Dimensions”, “Cage and Electrical Connector System”, “Host Board Layout”, “Electrical Interfaces”, and “Front Panel Bezel Requirements” as shown in Appendices A-B. The overall package dimensions shall not exceed the maximum indicated dimensions, and the mounting features shall be located such that the products are mechanically interchangeable with the cage and connector system. In addition the overall dimensions and mounting requirements for the cage and connector system on a circuit board shall be configured such that the products are mechanically and electrically interchangeable.
The electrical and optical specifications shall be compatible with tho enumerated in the appropriate standards (i.e. the IEEE 802.3z Gigabit Ethernet standard and the ITU G.957 Synchronous Digital Hierarchy standard). Recommended circuit layouts for electrical input and output terminations, and grounding practices are also described in Appendix B.
The transceivers per this Agreement will accept an optical connector such as the duplex LC, MT-RJ or the SG connector. This Agreement does not preclude any of the parties from offering SFP transceivers with other connectors.
Internal design of the SFP transceiver is entirely at the discretion of each party and is not covered by this Agreement. The parties recognize that their products may not be identical, but need only meet the above criteria.
安全上网B. Licensing and Fees
No licen is granted under the patents, know-how, tradecrets or any other technology of any party to this Agreement either expressly or by implication or by estoppel. Each of the MSA parties have agreed that licens to all required intellectual property will be made available to all interested parties under reasonable and non-discriminatory terms and conditions applicable to that MSA party.
Individual parties to this Agreement may have patents, which they believe may be relevant to this Agreement. The MSA parties should be contacted individually to determine if they have patent rights, which they believe may be pertinent to this Agreement. Each party is free to ek technology or other exchanges with other firms in order to support its activities under this Agreement.
C. Scope of the Agreement
The scope of this Agreement includes transceivers with transmission rates up to 5.0 Gb/s operating over multimode and single mode fiber.
Each party agrees to be responsible for its own development, manufacturing, marketing and lling in order to supply transceivers meeting the attached specifications.
This Agreement does not preclude any party from offering other products that may not meet the attached specifications.
Each party retains complete liberty regarding its methods of implementing a supply of product, e.g., by engineering effort or by technology licensing or transfer or combination of the or other practices.
Each party also retains sole discretion in its choice of sales channels and distribution.
Each party affirms its intention to compete freely and openly in the marketplace with the parties as well as other competitors.
Each party expects to support products meeting the attached specifications for as long as marketplace conditions warrant. No specific time limit is associated with this Agreement. The determination of market condition suitability is to be made by each party individually and in each party’s sole discretion.
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Announcement
A. Announcing the Agreement
Each party agrees to announce this Agreement in a manner agreed upon by the parties. The announcements will mention all the parties who have signed this Agreement.陈辉阳
Each party agrees to ek public attention by means of such an announcement.
Each party agrees to contribute time and effort at its sole discretion toward preparing and making such an announcement.
B. Promotion of the Agreement
After the Agreement is announced, each party may adverti or otherwi promote this Agreement in any way that it deems appropriate. Mutual connt of the other party is required if such other party is to be mentioned by name.
IV. Other Vendors
A. Other Vendors Matching the Product Configuration
The parties recognize that additional vendors may choo to match the attached product specifications after this Agreement is announced.
Each party recognizes it is desirable and keeping with the intent of the Agreement for such additional vendors to support the transceiver mechanical dimensions and functional attributes described in Appendix A.
Therefore, each party agrees to encourage other vendors to support the product specifications.
B. Naming Other Vendors
Each party agrees to have written internal procedures that require such party to name the other parties when customers ask who intends to be a source for transceivers as described in this Agreement. Each party agrees for such procedures to require it to name the others regardless as to whether another of the parties has already supplied similar transceiver products to that customer.
An example of suggested wording is: “Agilent, Blaze Networks, E2O, ExceLight, Finisar, Fujikura, Hitachi Cable, Infineon, IBM, Lucent, Molex, OCP, Picolight, Stratos Lightwave, and Tyco have signed a Cooperation Agreement relating to the establishment of Small Form-factor Pluggable transceivers for multimode and single mode fiber operating up to 5.0 Gb/s data rates.”
The parties are not obligated to provide any information other than the identities of the other parties. The requirements of this provision are met entirely if a party has the aforementioned written procedures and they are made available to its sales force in the same way as are other sales related procedures.
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V. Future
A. Current Product
Should the parties agree to further explore technical and other exchanges pertaining to the products described in this Agreement, then this shall be under a parate agreement.
B. Withdrawal
The parties recognize that at some future time it may become less feasible to offer the products envisioned by this Agreement. A party may withdraw from its commitment to cooperate at its own discretion upon a 90-day notice to the other parties. This notice is necessary to allow the other parties to discontinue mentioning the withdrawing part as a participant in this Agreement and to reconsider any jointly planned promotional activities.
VI. Limitation of Liability
With the exception of disputes arising out of intellectual property issues, no party to this Agreement shall be liable for any indirect, incidental, punitive, or conquential damages, including without limitation, lost profits or changes of good will, or similar loss, even if advid of the possibility of such damages. In addition, each party’s liability under this Agreement for direct damages shall be limited to $10,000.
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Appendix A. Mechanical Interface
A1. SFP Transceiver Package Dimensions
A2. Mating of SFP Transceiver PCB to SFP Electrical Connector
A3. Host Board Layout
A4. Inrtion, Extraction and Retention Forces for SFP Transceivers A5. Labeling of SFP Transceivers
A6. Bezel Design for Systems Using SFP Transceivers
A7. SFP Electrical Connector Mechanical Specifications
A8. SFP Cage Asmbly Dimensions
Appendix B. Electrical Interface
B1. Introduction
B2. Pin Definitions
B3. Timing Requirements of Control and Status I/O
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Appendix C. Agreement Signatures
