Solutions Guide

Pluggable Optics

for the Data Center

Pluggable Optics for the Data Center

The data center ecosystem is going through unprecedented growth and innovation as new players,

new business models and new technologies converge. One of the key trends is the growing importance

and evolving landscape of fiber optic technologies enabling new architectures and enhanced levels of

performance in the data center.

Fiber optics is no longer an optional technology, or only reserved for the toughest interconnect problems.

push optical interconnect technologies even further to enable unprecedented scale, bandwidth, flexibility

and efficiency to the modern, highly-interconnected data center.

Extend Your Data Center Reach

Finisar optical products span all Ethernet data rates currently

deployed, from 100Mb/s to 100Gb/s, and we’re leading the

market with our 25G Ethernet optical transceivers for next-

generation servers and switches. Our QSFP products support

link distances of up to 400 meters over multimode fiber,

well beyond the IEEE Ethernet standard. We also support

distances over single mode fiber of up to 20km on 100G

the data center, and has been at the forefront of providing

next-generation lower power dissipation optical products.

Our 100G QSFP28 optical transceivers (SR4, LR4, CWDM4, and

SWDM4) support a maximum power dissipation performance

of 3.5 Watts.

Our 40G and 100G Quadwire Active Optical Cables provide low-

power dissipation settings which the host system can utilize.

We are the market leader in the supply of 12x10G and 12x25G

on-board optical Tx/Rx modules, or BOAs. On-board optics enable

increased port density while minimizing power dissipation.

Re-Utilize Your Legacy Multimode Fiber Plant

Most data centers today are still architected around 10G

Ethernet, focused on 10GBASE-SR links over OM3/OM4 duplex

multimode fiber. As data center operators migrate from

10G to 40G and 100G, they want to maintain that existing

fiber infrastructure. However, SR4 interfaces require ribbon

multimode fiber, and LR4 requires duplex single mode fiber,

neither of which are present in the existing duplex multimode

supplying CFP modules to service provider router and

transport deployments since 2010. We have now expanded

developing our next-generation Ethernet products, which

will support 50G, 200G and 400G data rates in modules like

CFP8, QSFP56, and QSFP-DD. These products will meet the

performance demands of high-performance data centers for

many years to come.

Fiber Types Typical Reach Ethernet Data Rates

1G 10G 25G 40G 100G 200G / 400G

SFP+ CWDM (FTLX2471DC0xx)SFP28 LR (FTLF1436P3BCL)QSFP+ LR4 (FTL4C1QE1C)QSFP28 LR4 (FTLC1151RDPL)

Parallel Single Mode Fiber ≤500m to 2km QSFP+ 4xLR-Lite (FTL4P1QL1C)QSFP+ 4xLR-Lite (FTL4P1QL1C)QSFP28 PSM4 (FTLC1551REPM)Coming Soon

The Modern Highly-Interconnected Data Center

Please contact Finisar for products supporting other applications and protocols, including Fibre Channel, SONET/SDH/OTN, CPRI, InfiniBand, industrial applications and many others. We have the broadest optical portfolio in the industry.

25G SFP28

10G SFPwire AOC

4x10G Breakout AOC

4x25G Breakout AOC

Fiber Types Typical Reach Ethernet Data Rates

1G 10G 25G 40G 100G 200G / 400G

SFP+ CWDM (FTLX2471DC0xx)SFP28 LR (FTLF1436P3BCL)QSFP+ LR4 (FTL4C1QE1C)QSFP28 LR4 (FTLC1151RDPL)

Parallel Single Mode Fiber ≤500m to 2km QSFP+ 4xLR-Lite (FTL4P1QL1C)QSFP+ 4xLR-Lite (FTL4P1QL1C)QSFP28 PSM4 (FTLC1551REPM)Coming Soon

The Modern Highly-Interconnected Data Center

Please contact Finisar for products supporting other applications and protocols, including Fibre Channel, SONET/SDH/OTN, CPRI, InfiniBand, industrial applications and many others. We have the broadest optical portfolio in the industry.

40G QSFP+

100G QSFP28

40G/100G Quadwire AOC

100G C.wire AOC