How the Use Fiber Optical

Transceivers Affect the Server

Technology
The present data centers and networking environments are undergoing an
infrastructure transformation that require higher speeds, greater
scalability and a higher level of performance in order to meet the demands
of the business. As the speed and performance need increases, the use of
optical transceivers has become an integral part of the system design.

The data centers make use of the optical server technology. The data center
are used in the processing of tons of information with the need to retrieve
data from at high speeds. This aspect requires the design of the
transceivers to be optimized. Most of these centers ate connected with
100Mbps or higher and continue to have an increasing demand for higher
bandwidth.
The optical transceiver technology needs to meet the bandwidth
requirement for the storage applications, the switch applications and the
server applications. The transceiver design margins and the parameters
vary widely and can determine a form of optimization, reliability and
performance of these centers.

Why use Transceiver Modules in Data Centers

The demand for the 100G components and modules is a big drive for the growth
of these centers. The use of the optical technology provides greater
performance and optimization in areas where other forms of communication
cannot deliver.
- They provide high system reliability
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- The modules leverage unique design parameters in order to provide the

highest performance according to the industry expectations.
- Helps to eliminate issues that are related to the SFP incompatibility
reducing the downtime and support costs.
- Help to eliminate all the issues that result from unexpected design
changes providing solid compatibility.
- Optimizes connectivity with various platforms to enable maximum cabling.

How Optical Transceivers Affect Server Technology

1. The Power Consumption

The transceivers with larger power consumption present thermal challenges
and limit the EPS chassis density. In the date centers, there is preferred
use of the photonic integrated circuits (PIC), low threshold data and low
switching energy in order to reduce the power consumptions.
The use of smaller transceivers have made the optical power consumption
to drop from 10W to 3W and this is a significant stride that has enabled
the designers to get more of the transceiver technology. The lower power
consumptions mean that there are lower prices on the design and power costs.
2. Transceiver Size and Design

The packages that are used for the design of the optical transceivers
are shrinking. This is a significant step that has allowed the overall
footprint of the servers to be decreased resulting to the data centers
to be more streamlined and smaller.
When making considerations of the transceiver design, the port density
is an important factor to look at. Most of the data centers consist of
multiple racks of switching equipment that help the centers achieve high
speed. In order to control the costs, the designers have made refinements
to their design in a bid to improve the performance of the modules.
3. The Transceiver inefficiencies
There are losses that are correlated with the use of the optical
transceivers. There is an interference of the cross talking about the
telecommunication channels. This calls for the designers and
manufacturers to offer a more solid aid to help in achieving a better
efficiency.
The scientific and technological enterprises are all making in developing
and offering optic fiber transceiver technology that is suitable for the
data centers. For the electric signals of these modules, that need to be
converted to optical signals, will have a better facilitation where the
signals will be transferred from the server to server through the fiber
cable.
4. Improving the Transceiver Technology
Technology companies are coming up in a joint effort to develop optical
transceiver technology that is specifically meant for the data centers.
The devices will be able to convert electrical signals into the respective
optical signals and allow the signals to be effectively transferred form
one server to the other on the fiber optic cables. Some of the companies
have introduced transceiver technologies that transmit data at 40 Gbps
while others are making offers at 100Gbps.

The Data Center Architecture

The data centers architecture is evolving to deal with an increasing
amount of inside data. At the same time, the data center interconnects
(DCI) are becoming increasingly important in large players controlling
both ends of the link and the fiber itself. The introduction of the
virtualization technology as allowed a single CPU to multi- process. The
optical server technology has improved to support the amount of data that
is being processed through the CPU to the other peripheral devices. With
the use of optical technology, reaching high speed data transmission has
been easy making the transceivers be excellence in terms of their
performance.
Why data centers and Enterprise are embracing high speed networking
technologies.
- Due to the growing complexity of the enterprise networks and the data
centers.
- Larger and more diverse data and higher quality expectations of SaaS
- The rapid adoption of the 40G and 100G technologies thus creating a large
opportunity for the optical vendors.

Trends in the Mega Scale Data Centers.

The present data centers are being designed with the optical server
technology in considerations. Greater emphasis is being laid on achieving
greater speeds, high optimization and better performance. Below is a
simple
description
of
the
defining
characteristics,
- Server migrating from 10G to 25G
- 10G SFP+ demand migrating to 25G SFP 28.
- 40G QSFP (4 X 10G optical) demand shifting to 100G QSFP 28 (4 X 25G).
- Single mode fiber infrastructure is increasingly adopted in large data
centers.
- Routers and transport equipment continue to require 100G CFP and CFP2
for 10km applications.
As the cloud industry expands, the experts in the field of technology can
expect the optical transceiver technology to improve and advance in
order to meet the speed requirements of the server technology. This is
a promising trend because the transceiver manufacturers will try to
improve the current transmission speeds and the operability.
A reduction in cost of the optical transceiver is going to be witnessed,
if the transceivers increase their port density. Designers are having the
plan to upgrade their transceiver technology and the server technology.
If all these plans are implemented, business owners can rest assured that
their processing time will be conserved.