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Subscribe to the Cisco Optics Blog We recently introduced the QSFP28 100G FR pluggable transceiver. This may be one product, but it’s the beginning of a bigger industry dynamic that will change 100G pluggable optics over the next several years. To understand why we will need a change, let̵…

Written by Ray Nering, Product Manager, Transceiver Modules Group, Cisco   On Sept 20, 2018, the 100G Lambda MSA group announced that membership to the MSA has increased from the original 22 promoters, to include an additional 16 contributors. The MSA has been developing 100G and 400G optical specif…

Data center traffic is expected to quadruple in the next five years as IoT and big data applications take off. At the same time, we’ll see growth in distributed databases and applications, increasing virtualization and virtual machine density. And all this comes with more complex and unpredictable t…

Our customers have come to rely on Cisco’s ability to deliver infrastructure built to last, even while growing and changing to meet the next generation of business demands. The innovations we announced today at Partner Connection Week are specifically focused on both expanding the capacity and exten…

Written by Ray Nering, Product Manager, Transceiver Modules Group, Cisco Global IP traffic has been forecasted to grow at a 24% CAGR over the next 5 years according to Cisco’s VNI analysis, but traffic within the data center, according to Google, is doubling year over year. Data centers that generat…

In earlier blog posts (Looks Like We’re Upgrading Again! Dual-Rate 40G/100G BiDi Transceiver and 40/100G QSFP BiDi Transceiver’s Backward Compatibility With 40G BiDi), we introduced the dual-rate 40/100G QSFP BiDi transceiver and described how Cisco uniquely offers 40G capability and backward compat…

We mentioned recently the new dual-rate 40G/100G BiDi QSFP28 pluggable optic transceiver module. Like the single-rate 40G BiDi, it lets you seamlessly upgrade short reach links from 10G without having to replace duplex LC-connectorized MMF fiber infrastructure originally meant for 10G SR. But that&#…

It’s hard to believe that only four short years ago the data center industry saw the introduction of the QSFP+ 40G BiDi pluggable optical transceiver, which broke the mold by providing 40Gb connectivity over the same fiber format (dual MMF) as 10G SR. Until then, 40G SR4 was the primary option, and…

  Speed, simplicity and agility. These needs are all top of mind as service providers look for ways to maximize their existing optical network while building enough bandwidth overhead to support the massive increase in data driven by today’s digital world. In the past, network growth and transi…