Know About QSFP Transceivers
The Quad Small Form-factor Pluggable (QSFP) is a compact, a hotpluggable transceiver is used for data transmission and related application. The form factor and electrical interface are specified by a multi-source agreement also known as MSA.
Types of QSFP QSFP transceivers come with a variety of transmitter and receiver types. It allows users to determine the appropriate transceiver for every link which provides the required optical reach over multimode or singlemode fiber.
4 x 14 Gbit/s QSFP+ (QSFP14) The QSFP14 standard is intended to carry FDR InfiniBand, SAS-3.[7] or 16G Fibre Channel.
4 x 1 Gbit/s QSFP QSFP+ is a developed version of QSFP which support four 10 Gbit/sec channels carrying 10 Gigabit Ethernet, 10GFC Fiber Channel, or QDR InfiniBand.
4 x 1 Gbit/s QSFP The QSFP28 standard carries 100 Gigabit Ethernet, EDR InfiniBand. This transceiver type is also used with direct-attach breakout cables to adapt a single 100GbE port to four independent 25-gigabit Ethernet ports.
QSFP Specifications 1. It supports Ethernet, Fibre Channel, InfiniBand and SONET/SDH standards with different data rate options. 2. QSFP+ transceivers are designed to support Serial Attached SCSI, 40G Ethernet, QDR (40G) and FDR (56G) Infiniband, and other communications standards.
3. QSFP modules increase the port-density by 3x-4x compared to SFP+ modules. 4. The (QSFP+) interconnect solution is designed for a multitude of markets and applications including switches, routers, Host Bus Adapters (HBAs), enterprise data center, highperformance computing (HPC) and storage.