Cisco Nexus 34180YC to Supermicro SYS-1029U-TR25M Servers

For the past five to seven years the most common speed of connection between a Top of Rack (ToR) leaf … More

FluxLight QSFP-100G-SM-SR Application: 100G Spine-Leaf Interconnect

This application note describes the use of 100GBASE-CWDM4 links between leaft EOR/TOR switches and a larger data center Spine switches. … More

FluxLight GLC-LH-SMD Application: 1Gbps Campus Interconnect with DDM

The GLC-LH-SMD optical transceiver is ideal for trunking light-to-medium access/aggregation switch traffic on campus networks. This transceiver supports full-duplex 1Gbps … More

FluxLight GLC-SX-MMD Application: 1Gbps Switch Interconnect with DDM

This application note describes the use of 1000BASE-SX links between small edge/access switches and a larger core/spine switch. This note … More

FluxLight GLC-SX-MM Application: 1Gbps Switch Interconnect

While most new fiber interconnects have moved to 10Gbps and higher rates, good old 1Gbps connections are all that is … More

SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES SERIES: FluxLight 1000BASE-T Optical Transceiver Application

CONNECTING AT 1G OVER CAT5e Many network appliances, workstations and other endpoint gear include 1Gbps Ethernet ports. For most such … More

DATA CENTER SERIES: FluxLight SFP-10G-T Transceiver Application

Cisco Nexus 34180YC to Cisco UCS C460 There are many ways of connecting a Top of Rack (ToR) leaf switch … More

SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES SERIES: FluxLight 10GBASE-LRM Optical Transceiver Application

CONNECTING AT 10G OVER OLD FDDI FIBER So here is the situation, you have an existing switch in your main … More

SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES: FluxLight 40GBASE-SR-BD Optical Transceiver Application

Upgrading from 10G to 40G Using Existing Fiber This application note presents a use case for a specialized QSFP+ 40G … More

400G Form Factors: QSFP-DD v. OSFP

Two form factors are vying for supremacy in the rapidly developing 400G optical transceiver space, the OSFP and the QSFP-DD. … More