A question I often get asked is what to do if the distances between a 400G switch to the 100G servers is greater than 7 meters. A quick answer is to use 400G DR4 / DR4+ / D

If you are noticing your organization’s network needs a little extra speed in 2023, but your budget is fixed, you may be looking at ways to upgrade certain areas without a huge financial inv

Congratulations! You have learned all about the benefits of fiber-conserving of a passive system, as well as the cost and operational advantages over an active system. Your new passive filte

What is EEPROM and why is testing so important? EEPROM stands for Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory and can be written or programmed more than once. Data stored on an EEPROM

Currently, there are several 800G optics available on the market, either in production or in the sampling phase. They include a mix of 800G OSFP and QSFP-DD, such as the 800G OSFP 2x FR4 and

Over 8000 attendees experienced a technology summit with exhibits and learning sessions. Across the four-day event, attendees from over sixty countries engaged in technical forms, over one h

Throughout the pandemic, I have had four active internet users at home during the daytime. My two kids consume a lot of broadband bandwidth with their online classes and video games. The classes demon

It's been quite a while since we have seen an evolution in transceiver interfaces. Does anyone remember the GBIC with its Duplex SC Interface? In 2001, Major equipment manufacturers standardized

It’s been some time since we delved into the Octal Small Form-factor Pluggable (OSFP) and Quad Small Form-factor Pluggable (QSFP), which are pivotal in our industry. For most applications up

You may recall an article I shared in June of 2021 about 400G, its complexity and how to select the appropriate 400G connectivity for your application. Now we’ll step back a bit and shine so

As the demand for bandwidth surges, driven by AI, machine learning, and high-performance computing (HPC), 800G optical transceivers have become essential for modern data centers. Both OSFP (Octal Sma

With the emergence of 400G ZR and ZR+ technologies, the data center interconnect (DCI) and metro network market has reached a significant milestone in high-speed connectivity solutions. Thes