[137688] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SFP vs. SFP+
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Fri Feb 18 05:11:52 2011
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Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 10:11:37 +0000
From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
To: pnowak@batblue.com
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On 18/02/2011 05:55, Peter Nowak wrote:
> You can plug SFP module (copper or fiber) into any SFP+ port.
> So, on 10G port you can run either 1GE or 10GE.
A well known counterexample of this is the Cisco Nexus5k, where only some
of the SFP+ ports are 1G capable (first 8 on the 20 port box, and the first
16 on the 40 port box).
Nick
