[AusNOG] 10GBase-T SFP modules?

[Pieter Hulshoff]

On 10-07-14 02:04, Lincoln Dale wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 7:07 AM, Pieter Hulshoff 
> <phulshof at aimvalley.nl <mailto:phulshof at aimvalley.nl>> wrote:
>
>     On 09-07-14 22:47, Alexander Neilson wrote:
>
>         I may be wrong in this however when I have seen this question
>         before I was told that the power needs for pushing 10Gbps over
>         copper cables was greater than what was available over SFP+
>
>
>     I've seen similar discussions. From what I could find, phys are
>     quickly coming down in power towards the 1.5W it needs to be for
>     an SFP+, so this might become viable in the not too distant future.
>
>
> Alas, no, you won't just yet.  The next-generation 10GBASE-T PHYs at 
> 28nm are still not within 1.5W power envelope of SFP+, nor is the die 
> size necessary for them something that fits inside a SFP+.
>
You may very well be right; I'll have to do some investigating to see if 
there's none on any of the roadmaps either.

Kind regards,

Pieter Hulshoff

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