Ethernet : spec product price

This page describes media types, vendors, price of 100/40/25/10 Ethernet.

List of Contents*

• Interface specifications
• Products and Pricing

Interface specifications

100G

• EVOLUTION OF ETHERNET SPEEDS
  • APRICOT 2014
  • Greg Hankins @ alcatel-lucent
  • Matrix and photos of modules, specifications, media etc.
• Mellanox Brochure
  • List of NICs with Connector(module type), Host BUS (PCIe), OS Support, Order Number

Module standards (Transceiver)

• QSFP28 (CAUI-4 electrical interface to ASIC)
  • QSFP28 is used for short range and covers most of DC.
  • 100GBASE-CR4 (5m, Copper Cable)
  • 100GBASE-SR4 (70m OM3 / 100m OM4, Parallel MMF)
• CFP4 (CAUI-4 electrical interface to ASIC)
  • CFP4 is used for long range.
  • 100GBASE-LR4 (10km, Duplex SMF)
  • 100GBASE-ER4 (40km, Duplex SMF)
• old:
  • CFP, CFP2, CFP4, CPAK, CXP

Standard

• IEEE 802.3bj : 100GBASE-CR4, (backplane: -KP4, -KR4)
• IEEE 802.3bm : 100GBASE-SR4
• IEEE 802.3ba : 100GBASE-LR4, 100GBASE-ER4, -CR10(old), -SR10(old)

Products and Pricing

NIC

• Mellanox: ConnectX-4 EN 100GbE dual-port (MCX416A-CCAT)
  • QSFP28, PCIe3.0 x16, tall bracket, ROHS R6
  • 256,800 JPY (2016/05/23)
• Mellanox: ???? 25G NIC
  • Single Port: 46,000 JPY (2016/05/23)
  • Dual Port: 68,000 JPY (2016/05/23)

Cable

• Mellanox 100G Optics
  • VCSEL-Based Active Optical Cables
    • length 10m: 83,000 JPY (2016/05/23)
• Mellanox 100G Copper
  • Direct Attach: length 3m: 17,000 JPY (2016/05/23)
• Mellanox 100G/25G break out Copper
  • Direct Attach: length 3m: 30,000 JPY (2016/05/23)