Optical switches differ from optical transceivers in:
1. Optical fiber switch is a high-speed network transmission relay device. Compared with ordinary switches, it uses optical fiber cable as the transmission medium. The advantages of optical fiber transmission are fast speed and strong anti-interference ability;
2. Optical fiber transceiver is an Ethernet transmission media conversion unit that interchanges short-distance twisted-pair electrical signals and long-distance optical signals. It is also called a photoelectric converter (Fiber Converter) in many places. ;
3. The fiber optic switch uses the fiber channel with high transmission rate to connect with the server network, 8-port fiber optic switch or the internal components of the SAN network. In this way, the entire storage network has a very wide bandwidth, which provides a guarantee for high-performance data storage. ;
4. The optical fiber transceiver provides ultra-low latency data transmission and is completely transparent to the network protocol. A dedicated ASIC chip is used to realize wire-speed data forwarding. Programmable ASIC integrates multiple functions into one chip, and has the advantages of simple design, high reliability, and low power consumption, which can enable the device to obtain higher performance and lower cost.
Post time: Jun-13-2022