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SFP uplink port

Josh Elijah

Add an SFP to the switch. This would add considerable size, and some cost.

July 21, 2022

Michael Dickinson

Agree with your comment, but you could offer it as a separate stacking board. Startech do a 1.25gbit sfp that can be used for mm/sm cheap as well

Josh Elijah

Michael Dickinson: Do you have a link?

The switch we will use will have the ability to connect to an SFP fairly easily, so this is definitely possible.

Michael Dickinson

Josh Elijah: Josh, just go to the starch.com site pick the sfps and filter to mm/sm option they have a few options. Plenty of gel filled LC connectors out there that you dont need special tools to terminate

Josh Elijah

Michael Dickinson: What would be even better would be a compact LC connector, like this from Stratos. Unfortunately they're currently on a long lead time, and also come at a cost of around $200 per unit.

I think the best approach here would be to simply breakout the XFI interface (This is what SFP needs) so that a stackable board could be added later to implement the SFP.