Small form-factor pluggable transceiver

The small form-factor pluggable (SFP) or Mini-GBIC is a compact, hot-pluggable transceiver used for both telecommunication and data communications applications. It interfaces a network device mother board (for a switch, router, media converter or similar device) to a fiber optic or copper networking cable.

It is a popular industry format supported by many network component vendors.[citation needed] SFP transceivers are designed to support SONET, Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and other communications standards.

July 16, 2011

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