• August 16. 2022

With the continuous surge in data center traffic, the market demand for 100G optical modules is also further increasing. Common 100G optical modules include SR4, LR4, ER4, etc. However, in practical applications, due to the length of the optical fiber link. Several types of optical modules alone cannot meet the most cost-effective optical network transmission solutions in data centers. Therefore, ...

• May 27. 2023

Recently, 400G Ethernet has become a hot topic in the communication industry. It is both an outlet and a challenge. Network equipment manufacturers have launched 400G switches, and optical communication products have also launched 400G optical modules. In this article, ETU-LINK is about the impact of the emergence of 400G switches and 400G optical modules on data centers.   First of all,...

• June 06. 2023

At present, most 100G optical modules in the market are transmitted using 4 -channels 25Gb/s parallel or WDM,such as 100G SR4, 100G PSM4, 100G LR4, 100G CWDM4 optical modules, etc. In order to reduce costs and improve transmission efficiency, the industry has proposed the 100G single-lambda specification, which refers to the use of PAM4 optical signaling and coding for single-lambda 100G tran...

• June 15. 2023

The development of 100G Ethernet has brought a large market demand for 100G optical modules, among which 100G QSFP28 has become the most popular 100G optical module with it small size and low power consumption. 100G QSFP28 optical modules include SR4, eSE4, PSM4, LR4, CWDM4, ER4, ZR4, etc. In this article, ETU-LINK will focus on 100G QSFP28 LR4 optical modules. LINK) will focus on introducing...

• July 21. 2023

In this article, ETU-LINK will introduce the 100G QSFP28 and 25G SFP28 cost-effective port branch connection solutions. The following will analyze and compare from the two aspects of saving space and cost. First of all, let's talk about why the cost performance is high, we can judge by comparing the cost. We can assume a scenario with an 8-slot chassis, which is fully equipped with 36 QSFP28 ports...

• August 10. 2023

The arrival of the 5G era has brought great opportunities to the optical communication industry, and users have increasingly high requirements for high-speed data transmission. At the same time, it is also driving the upgrade from 100G to 400G. Among 100G optical modules, QSFP28 is the most common type of optical module. So today, let's talk about the difference between the 100G PSM4 and the 100G ...

• August 18. 2023

QSFP-DD, as the preferred packaging for 400G optical modules, can effectively expand the cloud capacity of data centers and meet the growing bandwidth requirements of ultra large data centers. In the previous blog, we introduced the 400G QSFP-DD FR4 optical module. Today ETU-LINK will introduce you the commonly used long-distance transmission solution for large-scale data centers -400G QSFP-DD LR8...

• August 25. 2023

With the continuous development of modern information technology, the demand for information transmission channel capacity by users is also rapidly increasing. Therefore, the market demand for 100G optical modules is constantly increasing, and their proportion in network construction costs is gradually increasing. The mainstream packaging of 100G optical modules mainly includes CFP, CFP2, CFP...