The CFP transceiver is specified by a multi-source agreement (MSA) among competing manufacturers. The CFP was designed after the Small Form-factor Pluggable transceiver (SFP) interface, but is significantly larger to support 100 Gbit/s. While the electrical connection of a CFP uses 10 × 10 Gbit/s lanes in each direction (RX, TX), the optical connection can support both 10 × 10 Gbit/s and. OverviewThe C form-factor pluggable (CFP, 100G form factor pluggable, where C is : "hundred") is a CFP transceivers can support a single 100 Gbit/s signal like or or one or more 40 Gbit/s signals like 40GbE,, or /. The in 2016 published t. The original CFP specification was proposed at a time when 10 Gbit/s signals were far more achievable than 25 Gbit/s signals. As such to achieve 100 Gbit/s line rate, the most affordable solution was based on 1.
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