With the rapid development of optical communication in recent years, users have increasing demands for the network. In this condition, 100G optical module has become the hot focus that users care. What is a 100G optical module? This post will give a complete introduction and guide about 100G optical modules.

1. Introduction of 100G optical modules

100G optical module was created to adapt to the trend that network market is developing to 40G and 100G, with a transmission rate of 100G, this module plays a significant role in 100G network system deployment.

2. Technology development of 100G optical modules

Compared with the 2.5G, 10G or 40G wavelength division transmission systems, the 100G optical transmission uses the digital coherent receiver to map all the optical attributes of the optical signal to the electric domain through the phase diversity and the polarization state diversity. Using the mature digital signal processing technology achieve in the electric domain polarization demultiplexing, channel damage equalization compensation, timing recovery, carrier phase estimation, symbol estimation and linear decoding. In the meantime of realizing 100G optical transmission, 100G optical module has undergone a series of major technological changes, including polarization multiplexing phase modulation technology, digital coherent reception technology, third generation super error correction coding technology, etc., thus satisfying the updating demands of users.

3. Category of 100G optical module

Currently available 100G optical modules on the market are CXP optical module, CFP optical module, CFP2 optical module, CFP4 optical module and QSFP28 optical module.

"C" in the CXP optical module represents 12 in hexadecimal, "X" represents a 10Gbps transmission rate per channel, and "P" means a hot-pluggable device. The CXP optical module is a copper connector system specified by the Wireless Broadband Trade Association and supports 12 10GbE applications for 100Gb, 3 10G link transmissions for 40Gb channels, or 12 10G Ethernet Fiber Channel or 12 × QDR link transmission of Wireless Broadband Signals.

The CFP optical module is designed based on a small pluggable optical module (SFP) interface with a slightly larger size; it can support 100Gbps data transmission. The CFP optical module can support a single 100G signal, OTU4, one or more 40G signals. CFP4 optical module is half the size of the CFP2 optical module and the CFP2 optical module is half the size of CFP optical module, different sizes can meet different demands for the high-density data center; the CFP4 optical module is more suitable for high-density network applications.

QSFP28 optical module due to the small size is also getting more attention. We know that QSFP optical module has four transmitting and receiving ports, QSFP28 optical module and QSFP optical module are designed from the same concept, and each channel transmission rate is up to 28Gbps.

CPAK optical module is a currently popular and new type of 100G optical modules, its appearance is quite similar to the Cisco optical module, and the difference is that its interface is in line with IEEE standards, support to be compatible with other interfaces.

4. Standard of 100G optical module

5. Common 100G optical module solutions

Conclusion

With the rapid development of technology, 100G network applications get closer to us; 100G optical module has become more cost-effective and important for the better network performance. In Cozlink, there is a full range of 100G optical modules provided and also the 100G network solutions offered for you.