• 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...

• December 29. 2020

In data center cabling, AOC active optical cable and DAC high speed cable are both used for data center short distance server interconnection and server switch interconnection. Many engineers ask: What is AOC cable? What is DAC cable? What is the difference between AOC and DAC? When should I use AOC vs DAC? This article gives a full comparison of performance, distance, cost, weight, and applicatio...

• 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 19. 2020

Data center computer room plays an important role in enterprise data processing and storage, but it is also accompanied by high energy consumption. Among them, the power consumption of network equipment such as switches accounts for 40% - 70% of the total power consumption. In addition, the power consumption of cooling and lighting equipment in the computer room makes up a very high proportion of ...

• November 10. 2020

Before we talk about 10G SFP+ AOC active cable, let's first understand what AOC active cable is. Active refers to the active optical cable in the process of communication with the help of external energy in order to carry out photoelectric conversion. Optical cable refers to active optical cable, which uses optical fiber as transmission medium. Now, you know what active fiber cable is. The emergen...

• October 20. 2020

The 10 Gigabit copper module, namely 10GBASE-T copper SFP+ module, adopts RJ45 interface, with the highest speed of 10G and the longest transmission distance of 30m. The 10 Gigabit electrical interface module is mainly integrated in switches, network cards and other products, which is widely used in 10 Gigabit Ethernet. Because of the advantages of high cost performance and long service life, 10G ...

• October 09. 2020

With the rise of cloud computing, big data and mobile Internet, Internet traffic is increasing day by day. Therefore, the number of servers in global data centers is increasing, and the scale is also increasing. Data centers are also deploying to 100G Ethernet. Next, ETU-LINK will introduce the 100G Ethernet cabling scheme of the data center. At present, 100G data center network cabling transmissi...

• September 26. 2020

With the increasing demand of network throughput and bandwidth, the demand of 40G network interconnection also increases. At present, the optical transmission products for 40G network mainly include 40G QSFP+ optical module, 40G QSFP+ AOC active optical cable, 40G QSFP+ DAC high-speed cable. With the increasing demand of network throughput and bandwidth, the demand of 40G network interconnection a...