ComNet SFP-26A

[Music] hello and welcome to a ComNet tech tips video I'm guy Walker today we're going to be talking about SFP modules these little guys can cause quite a headache when designing a system but we're going to show you how to take the pain out of that process with a quick ComNet tech tips video let's start with what is an SFP module it stands for small form-factor pluggable and it's a modular hot-swappable transceiver interface for media converters and switches these replace the older G BEC modules previously used and are sometimes still called mini gbics they are most often used to send Ethernet data over optical fiber cable but there are also copper versions with standard rj45 connectors but rather than sounding like a Wikipedia page let's talk about what all this means basically when trying to transmit over optical cable these are your laser transmitter and receiver and they easily plug