<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">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.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is distinct from DAC (Direct Attach Cable) which is all copper (you don’t want these, fiber for one thing isolates ground/emi)<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This cable won’t work for you without an intermediate switch (bad) because they both end in male SFP plug interface.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">However, if you just need to use 10g of the 40g port, you can do it much cheaper and easier with just this part:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.fs.com/products/72582.html" class="">https://www.fs.com/products/72582.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 8, 2020, at 11:09 AM, Randy Bush <<a href="mailto:randy@psg.com" class="">randy@psg.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">i am not a fiber/sfp/... geek, so clue bat please<br class=""><br class="">on my left, i have a delta 9020SL running arcos, female 40g qsfp<br class=""><br class="">on my right, i have incoming 10g 1310nm single mode from the seattle<br class="">internet exchange. it is currently into a redstone 10g sfp<br class=""><br class=""> NAME VALUE<br class=""> ---------------------------------<br class=""> SwPort 1<br class=""> Status PRESENT<br class=""> Valid True<br class=""> Vendor FiberStore<br class=""> Model SFP-10GLR-31<br class=""> Serial-Number G1804021292<br class=""> Type SFP<br class=""> Module-Type 10G_BASE_SX<br class=""> Media-Type FIBER<br class=""> Module-Capability F_10G<br class=""> Length 255<br class=""> Length-Description<br class=""><br class="">which i am swapping out for the delta 9020<br class=""><br class="">so i am look at something such as <a href="https://www.fs.com/products/30900.html" class="">https://www.fs.com/products/30900.html</a><br class="">except i do not understand active/passive, AOC1M, etc<br class=""><br class="">thanks in advance<br class=""><br class="">randy<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>