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Wed Jan 8 19:16:56 UTC 2020

AOC stands for Active Optical Cable, which means it’s really 4 SFP+ and a qsfp plus intermediate fiber all permanently attached.   1M is the length, 1 meter.

This is distinct from DAC (Direct Attach Cable) which is all copper (you don’t want these, fiber for one thing isolates ground/emi)

This cable won’t work for you without an intermediate switch (bad) because they both end in male SFP plug interface.

However, if you just need to use 10g of the 40g port, you can do it much cheaper and easier with just this part:

https://www.fs.com/products/72582.html

-Ben Cannon
CEO 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC 
ben at 6by7.net <mailto:ben at 6by7.net>

> On Jan 8, 2020, at 11:09 AM, Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> wrote:
> 
> i am not a fiber/sfp/... geek, so clue bat please
> 
> on my left, i have a delta 9020SL running arcos, female 40g qsfp
> 
> on my right, i have incoming 10g 1310nm single mode from the seattle
> internet exchange.  it is currently into a redstone 10g sfp
> 
>    NAME                VALUE
>    ---------------------------------
>    SwPort              1
>    Status              PRESENT
>    Valid               True
>    Vendor              FiberStore
>    Model               SFP-10GLR-31
>    Serial-Number       G1804021292
>    Type                SFP
>    Module-Type         10G_BASE_SX
>    Media-Type          FIBER
>    Module-Capability   F_10G
>    Length              255
>    Length-Description
> 
> which i am swapping out for the delta 9020
> 
> so i am look at something such as https://www.fs.com/products/30900.html
> except i do not understand active/passive, AOC1M, etc
> 
> thanks in advance
> 
> randy

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