Talk:Small form-factor pluggable interface

I am curious what the difference/relationship between SFP and GBIC is... I just read this in a document about an IBM disk array:

"The interfaces that are used to convert the internal communication transport to gigabit transport are either Small Form Factor Transceivers (SFF) also often called Small Form Pluggable (SFP) or Gigabit Interface Converters (GBIC).

Note that all DS4000 Series products now use SFP transceivers; the former FAStT200, FAStT500 and EXP500 require GBICs.

Obviously, the particular connectors used to connect a fiber to a component will depend upon the receptacle into which they are being plugged."

(draft copy of document received by email from IBM, "IBM TotalStorage DS4000 Series and Storage Manager")

Maybe future authors could clarify that in this page?

Disambiguation Needed

Someone needs to disambiguate this with the other entry...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SFP_transceiver

Also, there seems to be a fiber optics category and an optical fiber category. I haven't studied them to see if they need to be merged or if they should remain separate.

Posted by Chris Murphy Friday, Nov. 4. 2005, 4:23pm

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