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Table 4-8
Commonly used pluggable transceivers
Transceiver type
Applied environment
Whether can be an
optical transceiver
Whether can be an
electrical transceiver
SFP (Small
Form-factor
Pluggable)
Generally used for
100M/1000M Ethernet
interfaces or POS
155M/622M/2.5G
interfaces
Yes Yes
GBIC (GigaBit
Interface Converter)
Generally used for
1000M Ethernet
interfaces
Yes Yes
XFP (10-Gigabit small
Form-factor
Pluggable)
Generally used for
10G Ethernet
interfaces
Yes No
XENPAK (10 Gigabit
EtherNet Transceiver
Package)
Generally used for
10G Ethernet
interfaces
Yes Yes
For pluggable transceivers supported by Switch 4210, refer to
3Com Switch 4210 Family Getting
Started Guide
.
Identifying pluggable transceivers
As pluggable transceivers are of various types and from different vendors, you can perform the
following configurations to identify main parameters of the pluggable transceivers, including transceiver
type, connector type, central wavelength of the laser sent, transfer distance and vendor name or vendor
name specified.
Table 4-9
Identify pluggable transceivers
Operation
Command
Description
Display main parameters of the
pluggable transceiver(s)
display transceiver interface
[
interface-type
interface-number
]
Available for all pluggable
transceivers
Display part of the electrical
label information of the
anti-spoofing transceiver(s)
customized by H3C
display transceiver manuinfo
interface
[
interface-type
interface-number
]
Available for anti-spoofing
pluggable transceiver(s)
customized by H3C only
z
You can use the
Vendor Name
field in the prompt information of the
display transceiver
interface
command to identify an anti-spoofing pluggable transceiver customized by H3C. If the
field is
H3C
, it is considered an H3C-customized pluggable transceiver.
z
Electrical label information is also called permanent configuration data or archive information,
which is written to the storage device of a card during device debugging or test. The information
includes name of the card, device serial number, and vendor name or vendor name specified.