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World leader in advanced electronic signal transmission and composites makes strategic investment: Quellan Incorporated, a leader in Analog Signal Processing and RF Noise Cancellation low power ICs, today announced a Strategic Alliance with W.L. Gore & Associates (Gore), a global leader in electronic signal transmission. Under the terms of the agreement, the Companies will collaborate on high performance data center interconnects that reduce power, extend reach and increase speed. Gore has also made an equity investment in Quellan. With the ever increasing bandwidth needs, speed, and size of today’s "Mega Data Centers", cabling is becoming a significant obstacle to cooling and lower power consumption. By integrating Quellan’s Q:ACTIVE semiconductors with Gore’s advanced cabling, Gore’s new "Active Cables" will deliver dramatically lighter, thinner and further reaching cabling to Data Centers. "Cable weight and compute density have become exponentially critical in next generation Data Centers," said Joel Goergen, Chief Scientist at Force10 Networks. "Power consumption is a paramount issue and the industry is devoid of low energy, small form factor solutions for this escalating problem – ‘active’ cabling is an innovative answer to this massive problem." "We are excited to invest in Quellan," said Eric Gaver, business unit leader for Gore’s commercial high data rate cabling products. "Through our collaboration with Quellan, we will continue to deliver an innovative family of products that offer a low risk approach for minimizing cable bundle size and power consumption, while bridging the reach gap for massively clustered HPC systems for generations to come." "While data center power efficiency has been improved dramatically with mulitcore processing and open standards, the cabling that connects tens of thousands of servers has not kept pace and current cable technology will soon overwhelm the space available", said Tony Stelliga, Quellan Chairman and CEO. "This alliance with Gore – one of the industry's most respected providers of high performance cabling – is to deliver "Active Cabling" where our embedded silicon enables ultra thin, lightweight, low power interconnects that remove this interconnect bottleneck."