Product Brief
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Intel TXN18107
10Gbps XFP Optical Transceiver
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Intel optical components are modular building blocks that enable networking
equipment manufacturers to create standards-based products with shorter
time-to-market and reduced development costs. Developers can use these
silicon components to build optical network solutions to meet a variety of
high-bandwidth requirements in SDH/SONET, Optical Transport Network and
Ethernet networks.
Product Overview
Designed to support link spans up to 10km,
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the Intel TXN18107 10Gbps XFP Optical
Transceiver provides an interface between
the photonic physical layer and the electrical
section layer in high-density data-center
applications, local area networks (LANs) and
storage area networks (SANs). This small form
factor, hot-pluggable transceiver provides
excellent optical performance in the challenging
thermal environment of multi-port switch line
cards and other high port-density applications
including server network interface cards,
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storage host bus adapters, LAN switches,
SAN switches, and storage array interfaces.
The module also includes an XFP MSA-
compliant, 2-wire digital management and
diagnostic interface.
The Intel TXN18107 transceiver will operate
at any bit rate from 9.95 to 10.51875Gbps.
It is compliant with IEEE 802.3ae draft 5.0
10GBASE-LR, operating at 10.312Gbps for
Ethernet applications and 10GFC draft 3.0
1200-SM-LL-L, operating at 10.51875Gbps
for Fibre Channel applications.
The Intel TXN18107 transceiver is the newest
member of Intel’s extensive product line of
10Gbps optical transceivers for enterprise and
telecom applications. In addition to helping to
improve time-to-market, this transceiver is a
standards-based turnkey solution that enables
system designers to install and change trans-
ceivers both during the manufacturing process
and in the field for improved design flexibility
and reduced inventory costs.
The transceiver includes an optical transmitter
and receiver pair integrated with clock and data
recovery (CDR) integrated circuits:
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The transmitter section cleans up and
re-times the input from an XFI serial data
bus and converts the result to an optical
signal using a 1310nm distributed feed-
back laser (DFB).
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The receiver section converts a 10Gbps
optical signal to an XFI serial 10G electrical
signal. The receiver includes photodiode,
transimpedance amplifier, and clock and
data recovery.
