Types and Standards of 100G Optical Transceivers

As people demand higher and higher bandwidth, 100G networks has been developed rapidly. 100G optical module is an important part of 100G network. Now, there are several important standards and types of 100G optical transceivers. This post will introduce the related knowledge of 100G optical…

100G Optical Transceivers: How Much Do You Know?

The earliest developed 100G optical module was developed in 2010, which form factor is CFP. At that time, IEEE launched three standards (SR10, LR4 and ER4) for 100G optical modules, separately focusing on the 100m, 10Km and 40Km transmission. Then the IEEE standard added new…

Way to Select QSFP28 Optical Transceivers for 100GbE Network

As we all know, QSFP28 is considered as the mainstream form factor of 100GbE optical transceiver. There are many QSFP28 products on the market, including QSFP28 DAC, QSFP28 AOC, and QSFP28 optical transceivers with different interfaces such as 100G SR4 / LR4 / PSM4 /…

Introduce 100G QSFP28 CWDM4/PSM4

Whether in optical networks or in date centers, optical transceivers play important roles. Optical transceivers are composed by optoelectronic devices, functional circuits and optical interfaces. Optoelectronic devices include sending and receiving. In a word, optical transceivers are used for optics and electrics conversion. The sender…

Understanding 4 Types of 100G QSFP28 Optical Transceivers

The continuous and rapid development of the Internet as well as the desire of people for higher speed optical networks promoted the vigorous development of the entire optical communications industry and the strong promotion of independent R & D and innovation in many core technologies…

What Are the Differences between SFP, SFP + and XFP

In current optical communication market, there are various kinds of optical transceivers which come in various form factors at speeds from 100Mbps to 100Gbps and are fully compliant with the MSA and IEEE 802.3 standards. Some of the more popular form factors are SFP, SFP…