[c-nsp] interface between PHY chip and SFP transceiver

[Joerg Mayer]

Hello Martin,

On Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 02:52:45PM -0500, Martin T wrote:
> in case of 10GigE transceivers there are well known interfaces between
> the transceiver and the PHY chip(or directly with ASIC in case of
> PHY-less design) like SFI in case of SFP+ or XFI in case of XFP. Is
> there a similar interface for SFP transceiver? Or is there no standard
> and just a multi-source agreement which defines how the interface
> between the SFP and PHY(AFAIK also known as SerDes) is made?

Please take a look at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_form-factor_pluggable_transceiver
section: Standardization.

Ciao
   Jörg

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