BiDi
New MSA Formed to Tackle 400GE Over Multi-Mode Fiber
Written by Ray Nering, Product Manager, Transceiver Modules Group, Cisco On July 9, 2018, the 400GE BiDi MSA Group announced its formation. The founding members consist of Alibaba, Broadcom, Cisco, Corning Incorporated, Foxconn Interconnect Technology, InnoLight Technology, Inphi Corporation…
100G Adoption In Data Centers With QSFP BiDi Transceiver
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…
Cisco Optics On Display and Demonstrated at OFC 2018
The OFC conference has long been the place for the world’s top technical minds to present research and innovation in all things related to optical communication, like fiber optics, data communications, and optical networking. This year it will be held in sunny San Diego, California, USA and you can…
40/100G BiDi Transceiver – Some Sequels Are Better Than The Original
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…
40/100G QSFP BiDi Transceiver’s Backward Compatibility With 40G BiDi
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&#…
Looks Like We’re Upgrading Again! Dual-Rate 40G/100G BiDi Transceiver
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…
Fiber. Great In Your Diet. Costly In Your Data Center.
Guest Blog by Pat Chou, TMG Product Manager Since the introduction of the Cisco’s 40G QSFP BiDi (Quad Small Form-Factor Pluggable Bidirectional module), we’ve seen phenomenal growth and adoption. I guess people do see the benefit. What’s that? You haven’t heard? …Ok, let’s say you’re in charge of a…