Tunable XFP Optical Module Will Replace The 300-pin Module

As operators deploy 100-Gbps backbone network in order to support the emerging high-bandwidth services and commitment, the future will be more and more turning to the WDM transmission architecture. It is estimated that by 2014, the the WDM module market value will reach $ 870 million. Tunable XFP optical module can be used to replace the existing fixed wavelength DWDM XFP modules, the market potential.

Not only that, the expert analysis, the product will also replace the existing high-performance 300-pin modules. Tunable XFP module can provide higher port density, power consumption than the 300-pin optical module greatly reduced, and thus most likely to win a large number of orders from the hands of the equipment manufacturers.

Tunable pluggable optical transceiver especially XFPs, has entered a practical stage. JDSU is the first to launch such products company, to achieve mass production in September last year. The cooperation of the company with 26 customers in the use of adjustable XFPs 12 customers and supplier.

At the same time, JDSU is committed to the adjustable the XFPs product power, in order to achieve the 300-pin modules for metropolitan applications. The way to achieve this goal is to deploy linear tunable XFP+ modules, with support of up to 200km transmission with EDC device. JDSU with the EDC vendors ClariPhy collaboration, with the demonstration on the latter still OFC2010 meeting the CL1012 EDC chip with the JDSU tunable XFP module. JDSU plan to begin shipping in the second quarter of this year linear adjustable XFPs, the company hopes to cooperate equipment suppliers and the EDC.

JDSU also said, the adjustable the XFPs market to make technology investments to become valuable, and look forward to the end of the year adjustable XFPs product shipments will exceed 300-pin modules, tunable 300-pin module shipments will grow this year.

With the continuous growth of the tunable XFP product demand, other companies have also entered the field. In the recently held OFC, Finisar exhibited 10G tunable XFP module.

Although more focus toward the WSS and 40G technology, Olcaro also plan to enter XFP field, in addition to Emcore also determined to join the field. The Emcore latest launch micro-ITLA (integrated tunable laser assembly), as the core of the tunable XFP products section.

Meanwhile, Menara Networks, Inc. announced the launch integrated OTN XFP products. The module G.709 framer, OAM and former integrated forward error correction in a XFP module light switch / router vendors as the main target customers. Juniper also introduced the corresponding products.

Source：FiberStore.com

XFP Module VS SFP Module

Technical stuff really gives us a hard time understanding what they are. Though most of us are not technician, we still want to understand the latest trends of our time. Even in the line of telecommunications it has developed progressively. There are a lot of transceivers being produced to increase your signal. A transceiver is a package with a transmitter and a receiver. To be able to transmit data, we need transceivers. The most common way of transmitting data is to use light-based fiber optics. The use of electronic signals is the traditional and slower way of transmitting data. The best modules to use today are the XFP and SFP modules.

XFP module

XFP module also called XFP transceiver and what is an XFP module? "XFP" stands for "10 Gigabit Small Form Factor Pluggable." With XFP you will surely experience a fast transmission of data in your computer network including your telecommunication links.

According to Wikipedia, XFP is a hot-swappable and protocol independent module. It means that you can replace the component without shutting down the whole system. XFP can replaced without interrupting the operation of your system. Its usual operation is at optical wavelengths of 850nm, 1310nm, or 1550nm. To be able to install this module in your computer, you should have one of these: 10 Gigabit Ethernet, 10 Gbit/s Fibre Channel, Synchronous Optical Networking at OC-192 rates, Synchronous Optical Networking STM-64, 10 Gbit/s Optical Transport Network OTU-2, and parallel optics links. XFP modules are able to function with just a single wavelength or dense wavelength division multiplexing techniques.

SFP module

“SFP” stands for “Small Form-factor Pluggable.” It is a compact, hot-pluggable transceiver used for both telecommunication and data communication applications. It interfaces a network device mother board (for a switch, router, media converter or similar device) to a fiber optic orcopper networking cable. It is a popular industry format jointly developed and supported by many network component vendors. SFP transceivers are designed to support SONET, Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and other communications standards. Due to its smaller size, SFP obsoletes the formerly ubiquitous Gigabit interface converter (GBIC); the SFP is sometimes, erroneously, referred to as a ‘Mini-GBIC’ (although no such device has ever been defined in the MSAs).

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