User guide

OmniSwitch Transceivers Guide January 2013 page 1-1
1 Small Form-Factor
Pluggables (SFPs)
OmniSwitch Series switches use both copper-based and fiber-based optical Small Form Factor Pluggable
(SFP) transceivers. SFPs are fully hot-swappable and are available for both short-reach and long-reach
applications. Copper-based and fiber-based optical SFPs can be mixed on the same module.
In This Chapter
This chapter describes the technical specifications for all the OmniSwitch supported SFP transceivers. For
additional details about OmniSwitch modules, see the appropriate OmniSwitch Hardware Guide.
SFP specifications in this chapter include:
• SFP MSA Specifications. See
“SFP MSA Specification” on page 1-2
• SFP Transceiver Installation. See “SFP Transceiver Installation and Removal” on page 1-3
• Gigabit Ethernet Transceivers. See “Gigabit Ethernet Transceivers” on page 1-5.
• Dual-Speed Ethernet Transceivers. See
“Dual-Speed Ethernet Transceivers” on page 1-8.
• Bi-directional Ethernet Transceivers. See
“Bi-directional Ethernet Transceivers” on page 1-10.
• 100-FX Ethernet Transceivers. See
“100 FX Ethernet Transceivers” on page 1-15.
• CWDM Gigabit Ethernet Transceivers. See
“CWDM Gigabit Ethernet Transceivers” on page 1-17.
• 10-Gigabit SFP+ Transceivers. See
“10-Gigabit SFP+ Transceivers” on page 1-18
For information on installing and managing OmniSwitch hardware, see the appropriate Hardware Guide.
For information on OmniSwitch SFP compatibility, see
“SFP Compatibility Matrix” on page 4-40.
For information on OmniSwitch XFP compatibility, see
“XFP Compatibility Matrix” on page 5-44.