XFP to SFP+ either end of a cable

[frasergettins]

Hi,

a customer has a ASR1006 router and wish to connect to their LAN using one of the ten Gigabit interfaces on the chassis. They only have switches that support SFP+ modules. Looking online, it suggests that as long as they conform to the same wavelength and signalling rate you can have XFP in the asr1006, and sfp+ on the other end of the fibre cable.

Is this correct?

thanks

[balaji.bandi]

As per i know XFP support only 10G, if the SFP+ port has same Optic then you should be good.

[inderdeeps]

Balaji said correct, use 10G optics on both sides and you are good to go !

Regards

Inderdeep Singh

www.thenetworkdna.com 

[Joseph W. Doherty · Accepted solution]

If the optical transceivers conform to the same 10g standard, then yes.  The optimal transceivers don't have to be of exactly the same kind on each end of the link (e.g. XFP and SFP+).  This also assumes you're using a suitable cable that meets the requirements for the 10g standard being used.

[frasergettins]

Thanks