• December 29. 2020

In recent years, the traffic and bandwidth of the data center are growing exponentially, and the data center is also gradually transiting from 10G and 40G to 100G network, which drives the application of 100G optical modules in the data center. As a photoelectric converter, optical module is a very important part of optical fiber communication. Because optical fiber communication has the character...

• December 29. 2020

AOC active optical cable and DAC high speed cable are both used for data center short distance server interconnection and server switch interconnection. What are the difference between them? Today ETU-LINK will take you to understand it. AOC active optical cable VS DAC high speed cable 1. Different power consumption. The maximum power consumption of AOC active cable is lower than that of DAC high-...

• January 06. 2021

40G QSFP+ SR4 optical module and 40G QSFP+ AOC active optical cable are widely used in short distance interconnection of 40G data center. Since both of them can realize short distance interconnection, what is the difference between them and what are their advantages and disadvantages? ETU-LINK will tell you the answer. 40G QSFP+ SR4 optical module VS 40G QSFP+ AOC active optical cable 1. Different...

• January 07. 2021

Both 100G QSFP28 SR4 optical module and 100G QSFP28 AOC active optical cable are widely used in short distance interconnection of 100G data center. Since both of them can realize short distance interconnection, what is the difference between them and what are their advantages and disadvantages?   Before understanding the differences between them, let's first know their common points. Fir...

• April 16. 2021

At present, the global network traffic is rising, and users need more bandwidth to meet the application requirements, which promotes the wide application of 400G Ethernet in large data centers. As the key hardware equipment of optical network interconnection in data center, 400G optical module also has a good development prospect. More and more network communication equipment manufacturers, c...

• April 22. 2021

The QSFP28 package has become a mainstream 100G optical module with smaller size, power consumption and price advantages. In practical applications, how should we solve the interconnection requirements of 100G ports and 40G, 25G, and 10G ports? Below, ETU-LINK will introduce several common solutions to you.   QSFP28 port interconnects with QSFP+ port We need to change the switch port configur...

• April 30. 2021

10G SFP+ direct attach cable is a common cable for data center overhead cabling, which is used to connect small access switches and servers. 10G SFP+ direct attach cable is a low cost solution instead of optical module and AOC active optical cable. It has the advantages of low power consumption and low cost. It is an ideal choice for the connection between server and switch to ...

• May 12. 2021

Generally, the network card is installed on a computer or server, and communicates with another computer, server or other network equipment through the network. According to different application fields of network cards, we can divide them into computer network cards and server network cards. Generally, a computer can use one network card, but for servers, multiple network cards need to be us...