Small Form Factor Pluggable (SFP) is a compact, hot pluggable transceiver used in both Telecommunications and Data Communications applications. Standard fibre SFP transceivers have dual 'LC' connectors, whilst single-fibre 'BiDi', SFP transceivers present a single 'LC' or 'SC' connector. Operating speeds vary from 100Mbps to 4Gbps, supporting fibre links of up to 200km.
Kenton offers interchangeable Ethernet and optical ‘plug-in’ Transceivers for Data Communications platforms, including:
Switches
Routers
Workstations
Servers
Available from all and compatible with all major manufacturers. Kenton sells a wide variety of Transceivers in the most popular industry-standard formats. Accurate ‘vendor coding‘ ensures compatibility with the major equipment vendors’ expensive ‘own-brand’ products.
The Kenton team are specialists in Interface Matching for Networking and Communications products, and have experience in protocols including Ethernet, PDH/SDH, Serial, ATM and, most importantly, all aspects of Fibre Communications, including Wavelength Division Multiplexing (CWDM and DWDM).
SFP Fibre Transceiver
SFP+ Optical Transceiver
Enhanced Small Form Factor Pluggable (SFP+) transceivers use the same physical case format as SFP, but support operating speeds of 8Gbps and 10Gbps.
SFP+ transceivers are readily available for both multi-mode and single-mode fibre applications and also for copper cable via RJ45 connector.
XFP Transceiver
Slightly larger than SFP+ devices, XFP transceivers support 10Gbps Ethernet, 10Gbps Fibre Channel, SDH (STM-48) and Sonet (OC-192) applications.
QSFP+ Transceiver
Offering 40Gbps connections via a number of multiplexed wavelengths, QSFP+ transceivers are slightly larger again than the XFP format.
QSFP28 Transceiver
Offering 100Gbps connections via a number of multiplexed wavelengths (or parallel fibres), QSFP28 transceivers are the same size as QSFP+ format.