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With the introduction of the Fiber Driver™ SFP Media
Cross-Connect chassis, MRV Communications has brought fiber optic connectivity
to a new level of flexibility and scalability. These products have been designed
with leading-edge features, including any-port-to-any-port connectivity,
software selectable data rates, protocol transparency, Small Form Factor
Pluggable (SFP) optical interfaces, and support for physical layer
multicasting.
With these features the SFP Media Cross-Connect chassis
enable the implementation of an unprecedented range of optical networking
solutions from media conversion, distance extension and signal repeating to
lambda conversion and Wave Division Multiplexing (WDM), all within a compact,
fully managed platform. With a high-density form factor, a single chassis can
manage up to 16 separate data channels (32 data ports) in just 1 U of rack
space.
The Fiber Driver SFP Media Cross Connect can support data
connections with rates from 100 Mbps to 2.7 Gbps (100 MHz to 2.7 GHz) while
performing 2R (reshape and retransmit) or 3R (retime, reshape and retransmit)
signal conditioning. It is compatible with Fast and Gigabit Ethernet, FDDI,
ESCON, SONET (OC-3, OC-12, OC-48 and OC-48 with FEC), Fibre Channel (1 Gbps
& 2 Gbps), Serial Digital Video Interface (SDI) SMPTPE-269 and SMTPE-292,
DVB, HDTV (1.5 Gbps), and any other protocol within the range.
Used in
conjunction with an external Mux/Demux unit - such as a Fiber Driver Passive
Mux/Demux - and configured with corresponding wavelength-specific SFPs, the
Media Cross Connect can be used to build a highly flexible and scalable WDM
solution for any combination of supported protocols.
Establishing a data
connection with a SFP Media Cross-Connect chassis is straightforward. Simply
insert the SFP transceivers into the chassis and then via software management
set the port-to-port connections, including port-to-multiport.
The SFP
Media Cross Connect fully supports the SFP standard including digital
diagnostics as per SFF-8472. Together with the Fiber Driver Pluggable Media
Connect management module (EM316NM-PMC), it is able to provide real-time access
to information such as transceiver type (protocol, range, vendor, etc.),
transceiver temperature, TX/RX optical power, and transceiver supply voltage. It
also provides a means for generating management alerts and warnings when system
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