Operation Manual – System Maintaining and Debugging
H3C S3610&S5510 Series Ethernet Switches
Chapter 3 Device Management
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3.2.6 Identifying and Diagnosing Pluggable Transceivers
I. Introduction to pluggable transceivers
At present, four types of pluggable transceivers are commonly used, and they can be
divided into optical transceivers and electrical transceivers based on transmission
media as shown in
.
Table 3-1
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
Note:
For pluggable transceivers supported by S3610 & S5510 series Ethernet switches,
refer to
H3C S3610 Series Ethernet Switches Installation Manual and H3C S5510
Series Ethernet Switches Installation Manual
.
II. 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.
Follow these steps to identify pluggable transceivers: