Optical & Physical Layer

QSFP

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Overview

A higher-capacity transceiver standard supporting faster communication than SFP.

Details

Short for Quad Small Form-factor Pluggable. A high-speed transceiver standard bundling four channels, offering higher density and bandwidth than SFP. A common variant, QSFP28, achieves 100Gbps Ethernet by bundling four 25Gbps signal lanes together.

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