100Gbps MPO connector Cable

Andre_Brits_Kan — Tue, 07 May 2019 14:58:07 GMT

Hi Community

Perhpas someone can point me in the right direction.

We want to connect two VSP7400 switches to each other with 100Gbps.
Each of the VSP7400's has a 100GBASE-SR4 (MPO Connector) (Part Code AA1405005-E6) Gbic installed
The two switches is located in different rooms in the campus (50 Meters apart).

The two rooms are connected via Multimode Fiber.
The fiber terminates on a LC patch panel in each room as can be seen below:

What cable do I use between the switch and the LC Multimode Patch pannel in each room to connect the two switches at 100Gbps.

I was looking at Part Code 10332 - MPO to 4xLC OM4 MMF 5m cable.
But reading specs it seems that this cable is a breakout cable, dividing the 100Gbps into 4 seperate 25Gbps ports.

Below is an overview of what I am trying to do....
What cable do I use?
Can I use the above breakout cable on both sides?

Re: 100Gbps MPO connector Cable

BrandonC — Tue, 07 May 2019 21:38:34 GMT

You should be able to use the breakout cable on both sides as you mentioned. You'll still keep the ports configured as 100G, but you need to split the fiber pairs out to be able to use the LC patch panels on your fiber run. On the other end, the break out cable will reconsolidate them into an MPO connector to plug in to the QSFP28 module.

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