• November 14. 2025

Driven by the demands of cross-domain disaster recovery in cloud computing, 5G backbone network transmission, and wide-area data interconnection, 40G optical modules need to balance short-distance high density with long-distance breakthroughs. ETU-LINK has expanded to include an 80km ultra-long-distance model, forming a full-distance coverage matrix ranging from 100 meters to 80 kilometers. With m...

• July 02. 2025

Despite the rapid development of 100G and 400G technologies, 40G QSFP+ optical modules are still the mainstream choice for small and medium-sized data center upgrades due to their high cost-effectiveness and mature ecosystem. Faced with the two major technical routes of QSFP-40G-SR-BD (short-distance bidirectional) and QSFP-40G-LR4-S ( medium- distance single-mode), how to accurately match the nee...

• March 15. 2024

In the previous article, we understand the 40G QSFP+ ER4 optical module, and the content of this article will continue to share 40G optical modules - 40G QSFP+ LR4 optical module products! This paper will deeply discuss the technical principle, application scenario and future development prospect of 40G QSFP+ LR4 optical module. 40G QSFP+ LR4 Optical Module Product Information: I. Technical princi...

• September 28. 2023

40G QSFP+optical module is dedicated to high-density application systems, with higher port density and lower overall system cost compared to traditional SFP+optical modules. Due to the differences in various parameters, the application range is also different. 40G QSFP+ SR4 optical modules are mostly used in multimode applications to achieve short distance connections of data center equipment...

• April 07. 2023

In this article, ETU-LINK will analyze common problems related to 40G QSFP+ optical modules, 40G QSFP+ AOC active optical cables, and 40G QSFP+ DAC high-speed cables. Q1：Can a 40G optical module be connected with a 10G optical module? A1: Not all 40G optical modules can be connected to 10G optical modules, only 4*10G parallel transmission optical modules can be connected to 10G optical modules, fo...

• August 11. 2022

40G QSFP+ optical module refers to the transmission rate of 40G, and the package of this optical module is QSFP+. 40G optical module has four independent full-duplex transceiver channels, each channel of the transceiver rate of 10G, thus forming a 40G transmission rate, ETU LINK Optical Communication (ETU-LINK) will introduce the 40G QSFP + optical module what types are there. IEEE organization fo...

• 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...

• February 02. 2021

Metropolitan area network is a computer communication network established within a city, referred to as MAN. It is a broadband local area network. Due to the local area network technology with active switching elements, the transmission delay in the network is small, and its transmission medium mainly uses optical cables, and the transmission rate is above 100Gbit/s. An important use of MAN is for...