• November 23. 2021

The QSFP-40/100-SRBD is a dual-rate bidirectional (BiDi) optical module. It features 40G and 100G transmission rates and dual-fiber LC interface type. It can easily help customers upgrade from 10G to 40G/100G networks using existing 10G network duplex multimode fiber architecture. In the following, ETU-LINK will introduce the relevant parameters of the QSFP-40/100-SRBD optical module and the ...

• October 30. 2021

DAC high-speed cable is a low-cost and short-distance connection solution for data center equipment. It consists of a cable and optical fiber transceiver devices at both ends of the cable. Because of the high cost performance, the interconnection application between short-distance network equipment is widely welcomed. At present, there are many specifications of DAC high-speed cables on the market...

• September 18. 2021

As core components for photoelectric conversion in optical communication systems, data center interconnection, and long-haul transmission, optical modules rely on TOSA and ROSA to realize high-speed signal conversion. Now, ETU-LINK will introduce to you the components of the optical module—TOSA and ROSA. 1. What Is TOSA in Optical Modules? TOSA is the main component of the optical transmitter modu...

• September 09. 2021

As an important part of the optical fiber communication system, the optical module plays the role of photoelectric conversion. But many people don’t know: What are the core components inside an optical module? How do TOSA, ROSA, CDR, LDD, TIA work together? This article explains each component’s function, structure, and working principle to help you fully understand optical module design. 1. What ...

• August 12. 2021

In recent years, in order to cope with the rapid development of ultra-definition video, cloud storage and cloud computing services, major IT giants and telecom operators around the world are actively preparing to build large data centers. The 10G network can no longer meet the current data transmission needs, and the emergence of the 40G network has greatly eased the pressure on the data center. N...

• July 31. 2021

Fiber optic communication has completely replaced cable communication due to its advantages of high transmission quality, small size and weight. As an important part of fiber optic communication, optical module mainly plays the role of optical signal conversion, converting electrical signals of network equipment into optical signals, so that data can be transmitted in fiber. The following ETU-Link...

• June 15. 2021

In 40G short-distance optical network transmission, the conventional optical module solution is to use QSFP-40G-SR4 optical module and 12-core MPO multi-mode OM3 fiber patch cord. Although this solution can realize the upgrade of 10G network to 40G network, it uses MPO branch jumpers to connect 10G equipment and 40G equipment are obviously too expensive, so the industry has given a new optica...

• 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...