What Is SFP SFP+ Transceiver stands for Small Form-factor Pluggable transceiver. It is a pluggable version of SFF. Companies like Agilent, IBM, Lucent, Siemens, Infineon, AMP/Tyco, and others are utilizing SFP which is administered by MSA (Multisource agreements. In the rear of the device, you will find 10I/O connections. This device merges switch, router, media converter and other to a fiber optic or a copper networking cable. Generally, an SFP transceivers are used for telecommunications and data communications and they support SDH/SONET, Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel, etc.
What Are The Benefits Of These Devices? Since it is pluggable, this makes it conceivable to improve the optical interface at the last step of card manufacturing. It is also possible to accommodate different connector interfaces or a mix of SX and LX SFP. SFP cage is covering attached to the PCB board to accept the
transceiver. This not only provides an easy replacement to the system but also eliminates extra manufacturing steps and reduces cost.
Kind Of SFP explained in Details: SFP transceivers are available for both single mode fiber and multimode fiber. They are configured with 850nm VCSEL laser on 550m multimode fiber (SX), 1310nm laser over 10km single mode fiber (LX), 1550nm laser over 40km (XD), 80km (ZX), 120km (EX or EZX) single mode fiber and DWDM transceivers. The industry has recently developed enhancements to the SFP MSA, known as SFP Plus (SFP +), which is designed for higher data rates, lower cost and better thermal performance. SFP+ can support 8.5Gbit/s and 10.52Gbit/s Fibre Channel, 10Gbit/s Ethernet (10GBase SR, LR, and LRM), SONET OC-192 (9.95Gbit/s), and G.709 "OTU-2" (10.7 Gbit/s).
SFP transceivers are prepared with a variety of transmitter and receiver types which allows an individual to choose the appropriate transceivers
for each link which are needed for optical reach over the actual optical fiber type (e.g. multi-mode fiber or single-mode fiber).
Following are some applications of Transceiver Modules: 1. FTTH (GPON, GEPON, Point to Point) 2. Base Station (3G SFP CPRI/ 6G SFP+ CPRI) 3. Fiber Channel (4G SFP/ 8G SFP+), 4. Ethernet systems (from 100Mbps to 10Gbps with different form factor / SFF, SFP, XFP, and SFP+).