Avago Technologies today announced availability of the industry's first 8 Gb/sec SFP optical transceivers for Fibre Channel applications. The company is a leading supplier of interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications. With excellent transmitter optical and electromagnetic interference (EMI) performance, the AFBR-57D5APZ doubles the bandwidth of previous Fibre Channel SFP optical transceivers. The new transceiver is also compliant with industry SFP + multi-service agreements and enables the production of standards-based 8 Gb/sec SAN switches, storage arrays, host bus adapters and tape drives."Our high-performance 8 Gb/sec Fibre Channel optical transceivers are already in 8G storage products shipping today," said David D'Andrea, director of marketing for Avago Technologies' fiber optic products division. "With high-quality products and superior service, we've aggressively increased our share in the storage market with nearly two million 4 Gb/sec transceivers sold in the last twelve months. The introduction of our 8 Gb/sec transceiver and work on 16 Gb/sec technologies demonstrates Avago's continued leadership in the storage industry. Further, our internal VCSEL source supports a steady and reliable supply of SAN products."
Avago's new AFBR-57D5APZ is designed to be compliant with FC-PI-4 standards over multimode optical fiber at signaling rates from 8.5 Gb/sec to 2.125 Gb/sec without the need for external rate select inputs. It provides real-time temperature, supply voltage, laser bias current, laser average output power and received input power diagnostic information. The AFBR-57D5APZ's digital diagnostic interface also adds the ability to disable the transmitter, monitor for transmitter faults and monitor for receiver loss of signal.
Avago's AFBR-57D5APZ is available in link lengths up to 150 meters for 8.5 Gb/sec; up to 300 meters at 4.25 Gb/sec.; and up to 500 meters at 2.125 Gb/sec. It leverages all standard features and capabilities of Avago's widely adopted 4G SFP modules, including DMI and RoHS compliance.
