With the development of high-speed technology development, 40G Optical Transceiver Modules become the main network bandwidth facing high traffic services.
Data center is almost the engine of any overall growth in optical transceiver sales - it now represents 65% of the overall telecom and datacom market for 10G/40G/100G optical transceivers. As data centers begin to deploy high-bandwidth 40G technology, the demand for QSFP+ transceivers was surging quickly.
To contain the explosion of data traffic, companies and service providers invested in their networks with higher bandwidth and more expensive ports. This tendency is believed to continue in the next few years. 40G is now taking over as the new high-growth segment and becoming the technology of choice in the data center.
As speed have increased to 40G, the quad small form-factor pluggable (QSFP) has become the high-density transceiver of choice. By deploying 40G line cards, the occupied space in the data center drops considerably.
The future of 40G and even 100G is bright. However, 10G and 40G ports will still exist. Not all networks need to operate at the fastest possible speed, for example the Ethernet Alliance. There are still applications where slower speeds will use. Because speed is actually in related to the needs of the application. By now many applications are well served by 10/40G links – which may be considered as low speed in the future.
The 40G market is finally moving to a generalized deployment phase. Consumer demand is stressing network capacities, 40G deployment will continue to see healthy growth. Luckily, the industry now works to reduce the cost for 40G in order to move the market towards mass adoption.
Tags : 40G QSFP+, 40G modules
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