• 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...

• June 11. 2021

With the increasing network bandwidth, many data centers have upgraded their 10G network to 40G. There are many solutions for 40G optical modules, such as 40G SR4 and 40G LR4. Today, etu-link introduces an optical module suitable for upgrading 40G network on the basis of 10G network wiring. It is 40G QSFP+ LX4 optical module. Different from other 40G QSFP+ optical modules, it can use either multim...

• June 15. 2021

In 40G short-distance optical network transmission, the conventional optical module solution is to use QSFP-40G-SR4 optical module and 12-core MPO multi-mode OM3 fiber patch cord. Although this solution can realize the upgrade of 10G network to 40G network, it uses MPO branch jumpers to connect 10G equipment and 40G equipment are obviously too expensive, so the industry has given a new optica...

• September 09. 2021

As an important part of the optical fiber communication system, the optical module plays the role of photoelectric conversion. In this article, ETU-LINK will introduce to you what are the core components of the optical module? 1. TOSA: Its main function is to convert electrical signals to optical signals, including lasers, MPD, TEC, isolator, Mux, coupling lenses and other devices, including ...

• November 23. 2021

The QSFP-40/100-SRBD is a dual-rate bidirectional (BiDi) optical module. It features 40G and 100G transmission rates and dual-fiber LC interface type. It can easily help customers upgrade from 10G to 40G/100G networks using existing 10G network duplex multimode fiber architecture. In the following, ETU-LINK will introduce the relevant parameters of the QSFP-40/100-SRBD optical module and the ...

• December 02. 2021

In the 1990s and early 2000s, network cards were generally used in computers, and they were slowly used in servers and workstations until later. During this period, due to the maturity of wireless technology and the popularization of wireless networks, wireless network cards were gradually widely used on computers. However, due to the reliability of the connection, the wired network card...

• February 23. 2022

Cloud computing and big data are booming in my country. In order to provide enough bandwidth, many access switches have been developed to aggregation/core switches that can connect to 40G Ethernet. 40G networks have been widely used in data centers, and optical modules are one of the indispensable components for data center equipment interconnection, so ETU-LINK will give you an inventory of the t...

• July 12. 2022

The 100G QSFP28 SR4 optical module has a wavelength of 850 nm and uses a 4-channel 850 nm VCSEL laser array and a PIN photodetector array, and each channel can run at a rate of 25Gbps. The 100G QSFP28 SR4 optical module uses an MPO interface (12 cores) and has a transmission distance of 70m when used with OM3 multimode fiber and 100m when used with OM4 Multimode fiber. The 100G QSFP28 SR...