Deployment Flexibility in the Same Physical Port

The Arista 10 Gigabit Ethernet SFP+, (Small-Form-Factor Pluggables) 10GBASE-CR cables and Gigabit Ethernet SFPs offer customers a wide variety of 10 Gigabit Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet connectivity options over copper or fiber in the same physical port for data center or HPC environments.

Supported 10 Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ Options:

10GBASE-SR (Short Reach)

  • Up to 300m link lengths over multi-mode fiber
  • Optical interoperability with 10GBASE-SRL

10GBASE-SRL (Short Reach Lite)

  • Up to 100m link lengths over multi-mode fiber
  • Optical interoperability with 10GBASE-SR

10GBASE-LR (Long Reach)

  • Up to 10km link lengths over single-mode fiber

10GBASE-LRM (Long Reach Multimode)

  • Up to 220m on both 50 um and 62.5 um multi-mode fiber

10GBASE-ER (Extended Reach)

  • Up to 40km link lengths over single-mode fiber

10GBASE-DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing)

  • Choice of 43 colors up to 40km link lengths over single-mode fiber

Supported 10 Gigabit Ethernet CR Cable Options:

10GBASE-CR SFP+ to SFP+ Cables

  • Link lengths of 0.5, 1, 2, 3, 5 and 7m over twinax copper cable
  • Includes SFP+ connectors on both ends

4 x 10GbE QSFP+ to 4 x SFP+ twinax copper cables

  • Link lengths of 0.5, 1, 2 and 3m over twinax copper cable

Supported 40 Gigabit Ethernet QSFP+ Cables and Optics:

40GBASE-SR4 QSFP+ Transceiver

  • Up to 100m link lengths over parallel OM3 or 150m over OM4 MMF

40GBASE-CR4 QSFP+ to QSFP+ twinax copper cables

  • Link lengths of 1, 2, 3, 5 and 7m over twinax copper cable

Supported Gigabit Ethernet SFP Options:

1000BASE-SX (Short Haul)

  • Up to 550m link lengths over multi-mode fiber

1000BASE-LX (Long Haul)

  • Up to 10km links on single-mode and 550m on multi-mode fiber

1000BASE-T (RJ-45 Copper)

  • Full duplex 1000Mbps connectivity over existing category 5 cabling