Installation Instructions
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Chapter 1: Preface
- Chapter 2: New in this document
- Chapter 3: Safety and equipment care information
- Chapter 4: Supported transceiver, BOCs and DACs
- Chapter 5: Optical routing design
- Chapter 6: SFP
- Chapter 7: SFP+
- SFP+ transceivers
- SFP+ specifications
- SFP+ labels
- General SFP+ specifications
- Supported SFP+ transceivers
- 10GBASE-T SFP+ transceiver
- 10GBASE-LR/LW SFP+ specifications
- 10GBASE-LR/LW SFP+ high temperature (-5 °C to +85 °C) specifications
- 10GBASE-ER/EW SFP+ specifications
- 10GBASE-SR/SW SFP+ specifications
- 10GBASE-SR/SW SFP+ high temperature (0 °C to +85 °C) specifications
- 10GBASE-ZR/ZW SFP+ specifications
- 10GBASE-LRM SFP+ specifications
- 10GBASE-BX SFP+ specifications
- 10GBASE-CX specifications
- Chapter 8: QSFP+
- Chapter 9: QSFP28
- Chapter 10: End of sale transceivers and cables
- Chapter 11: Translations of safety messages
- Class A electromagnetic interference warning statement
- Electrostatic discharge warning statement
- Laser eye safety danger statement
- Laser eye safety connector inspection danger statement
- Connector cleaning safety danger statement
- Optical fiber damage warning statement
- Optical fiber connector damage warning statement
- SFP damage warning statement
- Glossary
Chapter 8: QSFP+
This chapter provides installation procedures and specifications for 40 Gigabit Ethernet Quad Small
Form Factor Pluggable plus (QSFP+) transceiver modules.
Important:
• The VSP switches allow the use of QSFP+ transceivers from any vendor. Extreme
Networks does not provide support for operational issues related to QSFP+ transceivers
that are not listed in this document as supported transceivers. The switch logs the device
as an unsupported or unknown device.
• The VSP switches operate in forgiving mode for QSFP+ direct attach cables (DAC) when
using third party DACs. Extreme Networks does not provide support for operational issues
related to these DACs, but they will operate and the port link will come up.
Note:
Although VSP 8000 Series and VSP 7200 Series support 10 Gigabit and 40 Gigabit
DAC cables in forgiving mode, in releases earlier than VOSS 4.2.1, the command
output for show pluggable-optical-modules basic displays the corresponding
vendor name rather than leaving the vendor name field blank.
• Extreme Networks recommends using the QSFP+ transceivers documented in this
document as they have been through extensive qualification and testing. Extreme
Networks is not responsible for issues related to third party QSFP+ transceivers.
QSFP+ transceivers
This section describes how to select, install, and remove Quad (4-channel) Small Form Factor
Pluggable plus (QSFP+) transceiver modules.
Use a QSFP+ transceiver or breakout cable for 40 Gigabit per second (Gbps) Ethernet connections.
VSP 8200 switches support only four 40 Gbps ports on 1/41, 1/42, 2/41 and 2/42.
VSP 8600 switches support QSFP+ transceivers on all 8616QQ IOC module ports. QSFP+
transceivers can also be used for 8606CQ IOC module ports; however, when you use the QSFP+
transceivers on 8606CQ IOC module ports, the port operates at 40 Gbps speeds. For more
information about support for the QSFP+ transceivers on 8606CQ IOC modules, see Release
Notes.
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