Is there such a thing as a 10GBase-T SFP+ transciever

Chris Balmain chris at team.dcsi.net.au
Fri Jan 31 02:25:53 UTC 2014


You may wish to consider twinax for short distance 10G over copper with 
SFP+ at both ends

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinaxial_cabling#SFP.2B_Direct-Attach_Copper_.2810GSFP.2BCu.29

Typically marketed as "direct-attach" (you can't remove the cables from 
the transceivers, it's all integrated)

On 31/01/14 12:26, james jones wrote:
> I would like to know if anyone has seen one of these? If so where? Also if
> they don't exist why? It would seem to me that it would make it a lot
> easier to play mix and match with fiber in the DC if they did. Would be so
> hard to make the 1G SFPs faster (trying to be funny here not arrogant).
>
>
> -James




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