On Jan 31, 2022, at 8:02 PM, Randy Carpenter <rcarpen@network1.net> wrote:
Are you talking about an SFP28 module that can link at 25Gb, but also 1Gb?
We just put 1Gb SFPs in the SFP28 ports and they work fine. I have not seen a single module that does both, but admittedly, I have not looked too hard, as the 1Gb modules are so cheap.
Or, are you talking about a module that presents as 25Gb to the switch, but 1Gb to the client device?
The latter. I remember there were two kinds of copper SFPs: cheap ones, which would talk 1G on both sides, and expensive ones which would talk 1G on the switch/router side, and 10M/100M/1G on the client side. There seem to be similar kids of copper SFP+, though I haven’t actually tested them: https://www.discomp.eu/mikrotik-rj45-sfp-10-100-1000m-2-5g-5g-10g-metalicky-... https://datainterfaces.com/sfp-1000-rj45-10gbase-t-copper-sfp-transceiver-mo... https://www.prolineoptions.com/dell-sfp-10g-t-de-pro-100-1000-10000base-tx-s... https://www.blackbox.be/en-be/i/14164/SFP+,10-Gbps,RJ-45/ https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/startech-hp-jl563a-compatible-sfp-modul... Those seem like they might talk 10G on the switch/router side, and 10M/100M/1G/2.5G/5G/10G on the client side. Or it might be that they establish whatever link speed they can on the client side, and then try to signal the switch/router side to adapt to that rate; which seems possible but improbable. Or it might be that they accept whatever speed the swich/router side tells them it’s running at, and then only provide link at that rate on the client side; again, possible but seems improbable. I haven’t actually taken any of these into the lab to test them, anyway. And those are 10G on the switch/router side, and I’m curious whether anybody knows of one that goes 25G/10G/1G on the switch/router side, and 1G (specifically) on the client side. I don’t actually want the SFP28, I just need to find a chip that does that in the size/power budget of an SFP, and it seemed like the easiest way to do that would be to find an SFP28 that did what I needed and bust it open to see what chip they were using. I’m sure you can guess why, given recent threads. :-) -Bill