Cisco is seeing a tough climate for its networking business, but it's reporting better news on the AI and security fronts. After days of speculation, Cisco today announced a restructuring plan that will see the networking vendor cut 5%, or about 4,200 jobs, from its 84,900 workforce as it plans to c...

40G QSFP SR4 and 40G QSFP BiDi at a Glance Before we go any further, it’s better to first obtain some basic information about 40G QSFP SR4 and 40G QSFP BiDi transceiver. As they both used to support short-range (SR) 40G connectivity, the major difference lies in the protocols, namely ...

Introduction to Fiber Optic Patch Panel As we all know, fiber optic patch panel is a device used to connect two fiber optic connectors in the fiber optic cabling system. Due to the variety of fiber connectors, there is also a variety of fiber optic patch panel(Read more about adapters here!). Why do...

QSFP28 SR4 QSFP28 SR4 is also a parallel optical transceiver. It offers four channels for transmitting and four channels for receiving, each capable of 25Gb/s operation for an aggregate data rate of 100Gbps on 100 meters of multimode fiber, which is similar to the CFP LR4. However, the QSFP28 SR4 do...

Applications Of Fiber Optic Connectors And Analysis Of Connector Terminals In this article we will introduce user fiber optic connector (SC Connector), straight-through fiber optic connector (ST Connector), fixed fiber optic connector (FC Connector) and LC Connector and their applications,...

Why Use Tunable DWDM SFP+ Transceivers? Tunable SFP+ is one kind of DWDM transceivers. It is commonly used in DWDM system. In the market, tunable SFP+ transceivers are often two to four times more expensive than DWDM SFP+ transceivers. Many may think DWDM SFP+ transceivers are enough in the DWDM sys...