Pluggable Transceivers
Kenton offers interchangeable ‘plug-in’ Transceivers for Data Communications platforms, including: Switches, Routers, Workstations and Servers from all major manufacturers. Metrodata sells a wide variety of Transceivers in the most popular industry-standard formats. Accurate ‘vendor coding’ ensures compati lity 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).
Why Kenton?
We supply fibre optical transceivers that are compatible with the vast majority of equipment vendors in the market and optics certified by most of the leading equipment vendors
SFP
The Small Form Factor Pluggable (SFP) transceiver is a compact, hot-pluggable transceiver that operates up to 1.25 Gbps.
SFP+
Enhanced Small Form Factor Pluggable (SFP+) transceivers use the same physical case format as SFP but support operating speeds of 8Gbps and 10Gbps.
XFP
Slightly larger than SFP+ devices, XFP transceivers support 10Gbps Ethernet, 10Gbps Fibre Channel, SDH (STM-48) and Sonet (OC-192) applications.
CFP
The C form-factor pluggable (CFP) is an optical transceiver for high-speed digital signal transmission. Enable 40 Gb/s, 100 Gb/s and 400 Gb/s applications.
QSFP
Offering 40Gbps connections via a number of multiplexed wavelengths, QSFP+ transceivers are slightly larger again than the XFP format.
QSFP28
Offering 100Gbps connections via a number of multiplexed wavelengths (or parallel fibres), QSFP28 transceivers are the same size as QSFP+ format.