Amphenol (NYSE: APH ) and Luxtera have announced a strategic collaboration agreement to bring silicon photonics-based interconnect products to a variety of markets and applications. Collaborating on the sales, marketing, and development of multiple optical interconnect products, the partnership enable high-volume manufacturing of optical interconnects and address the burgeoning active optical cable (AOC) market, the companies say. Luxtera introduces low-power 40G AOC As part of the collaboration, Amphenol will market optical interconnect products based on Luxtera's Silicon CMOS Photonics technology through its global sales and distribution channels. The products covered under the agreement will address the high-performance computing (HPC), Ethernet enterprise, and consumer electronics markets. This includes joint development of optical interconnect products for 40- and 100-Gbps applications.