As technology continues to improve, the size of transceiver modules has become smaller and smaller. In addition to the size, the rate of optical transceiver also becomes faster and faster, such as 1.25 G, 2.5 G, 4 G, 10G, 40G and 100G, etc. However, when came up to 10G, people found that the encapsulation is too small to keep many components. In order to solve this problem, XFP modules were launched as a new transceiver standard. Here is what you need to know about XFP optical transceivers technology.

Introduction of XFP Transceiver

In fact, XFP is not the first 10G transceiver in the market. The 10G transceiver market has gone through 300Pin and XENPAK/XPAK/X2 before XFP came out. As these types of products are intergrated with SerDes chips, we usually call them transponders instead of transceivers.

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