Avago Technologies has announced the sample availability for two fibre-optic transceivers with 14.025Gbit/s throughput per lane at the 2011 Optical Fibre Conference. The SFP+ transceiver addresses 16Gbit fibre channel switches, host bus adapters, redundant array of independent disk controllers and tape drives, as well as inter-switch and inter-chassis aggregated links. The four-channel QSFP+ transceiver targets switch and router interconnects for data communications and telecommunications, data aggregation and backplane applications.
The transceivers incorporate the company's 850nm vertical-cavity surface emitting laser technology and PIN detector technology. This combination makes the SFP+ module compliant with FC-PI-5 and 16, 8.5, and 4.25Gbit fibre channel specifications. The SFP+ module's transmitter and receiver can also operate at different data rates. The QSFP+ module reduces power dissipation and is compliant with the QSFP+ SFF-8436 specification.
