Things you need to know about SFP+ 10G transceivers

Are you thinking about upgrading your ethernet switches? Thanks to Swedish Telecom OPTO’s new entries into fully enterprise-class 10G networking, this is a question many businesses around the world these days are contemplating. 10 Gigabit speeds have become affordable to the big businesses and the small ones alike. With businesses widely adopting unified data and storage networking and network function virtualization nowadays, there has been an increase in I/O demands in servers. The only solution for the increased network requirement is acquiring direct attach cables, tunable optical transceiver modules, and SFP+ 10G modules.

Businesses around the world are upgrading their IT infrastructure to attain and work greater service levels to meet the ever-increasing demands for high-speed voice, video, and data traffic. The convergence of LAN & SAN infrastructure and the exponential growth in information has forced many organizations to move their computing and connectivity solutions to greater speeds. This breakthrough and advancement in technology led to 10G tunable SFP+ transceivers which meet the world’s growing bandwidth demands while reducing the size and power consumption for 10G connections. That’s how 10G tunable SFP+ transceivers become an important component for next-generation data center, metro, and regional optical network equipment.

Fiber optic networks, especially 10G SFP+, are the perfect technology choice to upgrade to higher performing hardware applications. 10G SFP+ enables high-speed interconnectivity between switches, telecom, servers, and storage arrays. This is the need of the hour for many IT companies around the world and the challenge that they are facing while selecting a new cable solution is the ability to support current and future data center deployments and trends. Here are a few factors that IT businesses should consider while selecting the right networking technology:

Core servers

The number of CPU cores is directly proportional to the number of servers in an organization. More the number of servers you have in your business more will be the number CPU cores required to process the data demand.

Storage Area Networks (SAN)

The networked storage is required to carry out multiple computations and deliver services to multiple compute elements either at the block storage level or at the file system.

Data Center Network aggregation

With the deployment of 10G SPF+ applications increasing, there is a need for higher speed switch uplinks to increase.

Input/Output Consolidation

As an IT business, you need to consider whether you want to interconnect your infrastructure for all your communication requirements, including management, storage, and computing.

Virtualization

The new cable selection should be able to use technologies like XEN, VMware, KVM, and Hyper-V for better-utilized servers.