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

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

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

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

Supported 10 Gigabit Ethernet CR Cable Options:

10GBASE-CR Cables

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

Supported Gigabit Ethernet SFP Options:

1000BASE-SX (Short Haul)

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

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

• Full duplex 1000Mbps connectivity over existing category 5 cabling