100G Done Right
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From QSFP28 and breakouts to FEC and fiber polarity, this 100G series explains what’s really happening inside your network. Written by engineers, based on real deployments, and designed to help you troubleshoot faster and build smarter.
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High-speed Ethernet explained: What do 10G, 25G, 40G, 50G and 100G actually mean for your network?
If you’re running network infrastructure built in the last decade, you’ve probably heard vendors talking about upgrading to 25G, 40G, 50G or 100G. Maybe you’re...
100G Ethernet: Standards, Speeds & Benefits
As organizations grow and adopt AI workloads, real-time applications, and cloud-first architectures, network bandwidth requirements are rapidly outpacing 10G and 40G capabilities. This is why...
QSFP28 Transceivers and 100G Ethernet: What Network Engineers Need to Know
Network bandwidth demands are quickly outgrowing 10G and 40G network designs. As organizations adopt AI workloads, real-time applications, and cloud-first architectures, legacy backbones simply cannot...
MPO Breakout for 100G: Port Splitting, Configurations & Best Practices
It is a classic scenario: you need to connect four new rack servers, but your Top-of-Rack switch is at capacity and the budget is tight....
No Auto-MDI-X Function on Fiber Interfaces: Time to Talk About “Polarity”
You have just racked your new switches, run the fiber, and plugged in the transceivers. The link lights should be blinking, but instead, you are...
Fiber Cable Types & Connectors
The world of fiber optics is an alphabet soup of acronyms and a rainbow of jacket colors. But a fiber link only delivers reliable performance...
Forward Error Correction (FEC) in 100G Networks
You just completed a 25G/40G/50G/100G upgrade. The links are up, traffic is flowing, and your dashboard shows zero errors. Time to move on to the...
Top 100G Ethernet Deployment Challenges & Solutions
Moving from 10G to 100G is not just a matter of swapping out a few cables and calling it a day. A 25G/40G/50G/100G upgrade introduces...
The Ins and Outs of Bidirectional Fiber Communication
You are out of dark fiber. Pulling new cable is expensive, disruptive, and usually the last thing anyone wants to approve in a budget meeting....
The more you understand your network, the more confident you become on cutover day, and the faster you can fix anything it throws at you. That’s why we built this series.
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Rocky Gregory, CISSP, PMP, CWNE #286
Senior Product Manager