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.

Bandwidth, port density and low-power demands now require fiber optics. And fiber optics is now a

pervasive, high-volume, low-cost set of technologies that make it an easy choice for switch interconnect

and server I/O.

Finisar is investing heavily in the data center. Our 10G, 25G, 40G and 100G fiber optic products are enabling

the highest bandwidth, highest density, lowest power and lowest total cost interconnect solutions on the

market today. And we are already working on 200G, 400G and beyond. We are ready to partner with you to

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 QSFP28, 40km

on 40G QSFP+ and 80km on 10G SFP+. And if you need to

connect your data centers over metropolitan or regional

networks, our coherent CFP2-ACO modules can support

distances beyond 500km, as well as enable bidirectional

coherent links to minimize the number of fibers required.

Increase Density and Consume Less Power

Finisar understands the importance of heat management in

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

fiber plant. Finisar today is supplying QSFP+ and QSFP28

SWDM4 transceivers which provide cost-effective duplex

multimode fiber links for both 40G and 100G Ethernet.

Move beyond 100G to 200G / 400G

Finisar has been the market leader in 100G Ethernet modules,

supplying CFP modules to service provider router and

transport deployments since 2010. We have now expanded

our 100G product offering to include various types of CFP2,

CFP4, CXP and QSFP28 modules, for telecom and also the

emerging data center and enterprise 100G applications.

However, we’re not stopping there. We currently have a

leading role in standardization activities and are already

developing our next-generation Ethernet products, which will

support 50G, 200G and 400G data rates in modules like CFP8,

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

performance demands of high-performance data centers for

many years to come.