The Cisco® 100BASE-X Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP) device (Figure 1) is a hot-swappable input/output device that plugs into Fast Ethernet ports, dual-rate Fast/Gigabit Ethernet ports, or Gigabit Ethernet ports of a Cisco switch or router, linking the port with the fiber cabling network.
Main features include the following:
– Hot-swappable when deployed, the switch or router does not have to reboot
– Supports the “pay-as-you-populate” model
– Interchangeable with other 100BASE-X SFPs on the same line card
– Supports the Cisco quality ID feature that enables the switch or router to identify whether or not the SFP is a Cisco qualified SFP
– Optically interoperable with respective 100BASE-X Ethernet interfaces on the same link
Cisco 100BASE-FX SFP
The Cisco 100BASE-FX SFP operates on ordinary multimode fiber-optic (MMF) link spans up to 2 kilometers (km) long.
GLC-FE-100FX modules operate in Fast Ethernet or dual-rate Fast/Gigabit Ethernet ports of Cisco switches and routers.
GLC-FE-100FX-RGD modules operate in Fast Ethernet or dual-rate Fast/Gigabit Ethernet ports of Cisco Industrial Ethernet and SmartGrid switches and routers.
GLC-GE-100FX modules operate in Gigabit Ethernet ports of Cisco switches and routers.
All these modules are interoperable with industrywide interfaces compliant to the IEEE 100BASE-FX standard.
Specifications
| SFP transceiver type | Fiber optic |
| Maximum data transfer rate | 1000 Mbit/s |
| Interface type | SFP |
| Multi-mode fiber (MMF) supported | Y |
| Fiber optic connector | LC |
| Maximum transfer distance | 2000 m |
| Wavelength | 1310 nm |
| Networking standards | IEEE 802.3ab |
| Cabling technology | 100BASE-FX |
| Fiber ports quantity | 2 |
| Power consumption (typical) | 1.5 W |
| Operating temperature (T-T) | 0 - 70 °C |
| Storage temperature (T-T) | -40 - 85 °C |
