by ELIZABETH GOLDSMITH | Jan 17, 2019
The three most common MPO connector options are MPO-8, MPO-12 and MPO-24. MPO-8 is a legacy standard for the QSFPs, coming out of the transceivers running 40 Gigabit or 100 Gigabits. It is used for both multimode and singlemode transceivers and breakouts, but offers...
by ELIZABETH GOLDSMITH | Jan 17, 2019
In a leaf-spine architecture, a series of leaf switches form the access layer.These switches are fully meshed to a series of spine switches. Leaf-spine architectures are popular because they reduce the number of “hops” from server to server, which minimizes latency....
by ELIZABETH GOLDSMITH | Jan 15, 2019
An unpinned MPO is inspected in the same way as a pinned MPO, however from an inspection perspective there’s no contact made with the fiber. You’d use the same inspection probes that will find the fibers, inspect them, and do a pass fail analysis. For...
