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People are always amazed by the development of optical communication. Things move really fast in this industry. Fiber optic transceiver, a small-size but important optical component, can best represent the advancing of the optical communication industry. The form factor of optical transceivers has changed from GBIC for Gigabit Ethernet to SFP+ for 10GbE, QSFP+ for 40GbE and 100G CFP and QSFP28. Even a double density QSFP—QSFP-DD for 200/400GbE is under research. It’s not difficult to recognize all these different types of fiber optic transceivers. However, customer could be confused about how to connect these transceiver to the telecommunication network. This post will introduce how to select patch cables for optical transceivers in details. Patch Cable Selection Guide To select the right patch cable for your modules, you should firstly have a comprehensive understanding of the modules mainly from the following aspects: transmission media, interface, transmission distances and...

As bandwidth demands increase, fiber optic patch cables and fiber optic transceivers become more and more important in fiber optic data transmission, especially in data transmission between the switches and equipment. But with so many different kinds of patch cables available in the market, which one is suitable for may optical transceivers? This article may on this issue to provide some solutions. Before starting this topic, it is necessary for us to review the basic knowledge of the fiber optic transceiver and fiber optic patch cable. Fiber Optic Transceiver Overview Fiber Optic Transceiver is a self-contained component that can both transmit and receive. Usually, it is inserted in devices such as switches, routers or network interface cards which provide one or more transceiver module slot. There are many optical transceivers types, such as SFP+ transceiver, X2 transceiver, XENPAK transceiver, XFP transceiver, SFP (Mini GBIC) transceiver, GBIC transceiver and so on. ...