Basic Information About The SFP Transceivers





The small form-factor pluggable or the SFP is a very compact device which can be plugged to your device without the need of a restart. This can,  for both data communication and telecommunication. The SFPs are also known as GBIC. With the help of  SFP transceivers, you can interface your motherboard to the fiber optics or copper cables used for networking. The SFPs are now standardized devices in the network industry now and many vendors of network components are in favor of their use. Various communication standards like SONET, fiber channel, gigabit ethernet, etc. can be used with the SFP transceivers. You can find compatible SFP modules like dell 320-2881 which also are a good option for use.

Types Of SFP

There are different SFP transceivers available in the market. The different transceivers have a different receiver and transmitters. multimode allows the user to choose amongst the different transceivers which can provide different optical reach depending on the type of optical fiber (different fibers are single-mode fiber, multimode fiber, etc.) There are different categories present in the optical SFP modules.
These categories are:
Multi-mode fiber, with black or beige extraction lever
SX - 850 nm, for a maximum of 550 m at 1.25 Gb/s (Gigabit Ethernet) or 150m at 4.25 Gb/s (Fibre Channel)

Transceivers, paired as BS-U and BS-D for Uplink and Downlink respectively, also for distances up to 10 km
1550 nm 40 km (XD), 80 km (ZX), 120 km (EX or EZX)

Single-mode fiber, with blue extraction lever
LX - 1310 nm, for distances up to 10 km
BX - 1490 nm/1310 nm, Single Fiber Bi-Directional Gigabit SFP
CWDM and DWDM transceivers at various wavelengths achieving various maximum distances

Classification Of The Different SFPs



SFP transceivers are classified as per the rates and wavelength.
The different rates are:
155M/622M/1.25G/2.125G/4.25G/8G/10G/155M/1.25G. The present market is all about the 10G technology.
The different wavelengths are
850nm/1310nm/1550nm/1490nm/1530nm/1610nm. These differ on the basis of the distance, the wavelength can cover. For example, 1310/1550nm is SFP single-mode, and the distance of transmission is more than 2KM and the 850nm wavelength is SFP multimode, and the distance of transmission is less than 2KM.

One can get easily confused if the modules are without a mark. There are standard colors used by the manufacturers for the pull rings which makes the identification process easy. Here are some examples:
Black pull ring is multi-mode, the wavelength is 850nm;
Blue is the 1310nm module;
Yellow is the 1550nm module;
Purple is the 1490nm module

Compatible Dell 320-2881 1000Base-SX SFP Transceivers

These are compatible versions of the original dell 320-2881 1000Base-SX SFP Transceivers and as good as the original version. The difference is of price and the brand label. The compatible versions are made with similar standards Of MSA used for the original dell 320-2881. If you have less knowledge about the SFP transceivers you can contact gbic-shop.de. We can provide you a free sample on request. To know more you can visit our website.

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