400G Optical Transceiver at a Glance

GIGALIGHT
2 min readDec 25, 2018

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The broad market prospect of the 400G optical transceiver has become the consensus of the communications industry. Therefore, many optical devices and optical transceiver manufacturers have increased their investment in this area. This article mainly analyzes the driving forces of 400G optical transceivers market and the applications of 400G optical transceivers.

The followings table is the main specifications of 400G optical transceivers.

400G BiDi MSA

400G-BD4.2 Multimode Fiber 8x50Gbps Technical Specifications

QSFP-DD MSA

QSFP DOUBLE DENSITY 8X PLUGGABLE TRANSCEIVER

OSFP MSA

OSFP OCTAL SMALL FORM FACTOR PLUGGABLE MODULE

CFP MSA

CFP8 Hardware Specification

CDFP MSA

400 Gb/s (16 X 25 GB/s) PLUGGABLE TRANSCEIVER

The driving forces of 400G optical transceivers market

1. The implementation of networks within the mega data centers due to the rapid growth of data centers.

● Global adoption of the Internet is driving rapid growth of the mega datacenter.

● The development of online commerce, streaming video, social networking, and cloud services has brought a storm of global data traffic.

2. The data centers connect the data centers

3. The need for higher speed network transmission

The applications of 400G optical transceivers

The manufacturers how to take a leading role in the 400G optical transceivers market?

1. The development of innovative products.

2. Offer a broad product selection.

However, as the mega data center market scales to keep pace with machine-to-machine communications needs, data center operators have become the first to demand transmission transceivers for data rates of 400G optical transceiver and beyond.

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GIGALIGHT
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GIGALIGHT is an open optical network device explorer focusing on data center & cloud computing, wireless & 5G, and metro & broadcast networks.

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