Craig Pasek, Product Supervisor
Cisco Optics
New 50G transceiver product household
As community operators look to improve their medium-speed Ethernet hyperlinks, they’ll reap the benefits of a Cisco’s new optical transceiver product household “SFP-50G”. These modules are 50G transceivers in a type issue referred to as SFP56 (see Determine 1). They ship double the info charge of SFP-25G (SFP28 type issue) and in the identical fundamental SFP type issue.
Not like QSFP-40G and QSFP-100G transceivers, which each use 4 electrical lanes at decrease speeds (4 x 10G and 4 x 25G, respectively), SFP-50G includes a single electrical lane. In consequence, it might probably interface instantly with the newest technology swap ASICs that incorporate 50G serializers/deserializers (SerDes), eliminating the necessity for extra gearboxes with PAM4 encoders/decoders. Thus, SFP-50G gives a lift in efficiency of 50G with a design that minimizes price, area and energy consumption.
From a historic perspective, let’s take a look at the evolution of the QSFP-100G and SFP-25G markets, each primarily based upon the 25G SerDes. The primary units to succeed in the market have been the QSFP-100G optical modules, primarily based on 4 electrical lanes of 25G SerDes within the QSFP28 type issue. This allowed transceiver module suppliers to supply 100G functionality. SFP-25G modules weren’t extensively out there till years later. An identical dynamic is in play now for SFP-50G. Due to the broad give attention to QSFP56-DD 400G modules, the marketplace for 50G SerDes and ASICs is now mature, leading to excessive reliability and low price. This example allows the event and business progress of SFP-50G modules.
The SFP56 worth proposition
In comparison with the workhorse SFP-25G, the SFP-50G delivers double the info charge in the identical type issue. Traditionally, that development has led to dramatic decreases in price per bit. Swap distributors are already growing switches with SFP ports that may help 1G, 10G, 25G, and 50G charges. These merchandise give community operators the liberty to function every hyperlink on the knowledge charge that most closely fits demand at any given time simply by deciding on the suitable transceiver kind: copper, SMF or MMF and the specified pace in SFP, SFP-10G, SFP-25G and now SFP-50G.
To help this development, Cisco’s SFP-50G product household incorporates a complete portfolio of transceivers starting from copper-based options of some meters to optical modules with reaches of as much as 15 km and even better sooner or later. These transceivers help 50G and 25G twin charge, which permits them to attach on the new the 50G charge whereas additionally connecting with 25G transceivers. This provides community operators an economical migration path from 25G to 50G by enabling partial community upgrades.
Community operators want versatile, dependable improve paths to serve quite a lot of consumer wants. SFP-50G offers them the choice of a major capability improve in a well-recognized type issue that helps cut back price per bit. Cisco’s SFP-50G transceiver product line, a broad 50G portfolio, lets community operators select the optimum answer for quite a lot of community segments.
Learn the white paper to find out how SFP-50G options can improve your community:
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Compatibility matrix for SFP-50G
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