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Even in tough times, we try to convey a feeling of charity and hope. As we get the feeling that Covid will be with us for a long time, we decided to decorate what is possibly the…

Happy Easter! Do you want to have some fun and the chance to win your own Flexbox? Just paint an egg! We will be giving away a Flexbox for the most creative egg painting…

We have great news! For the past few months, we have been working on a solution to make your life just a little bit easier. We have engineered an add-on to make our “Swiss…

OSFP = Octal Small Form Factor Pluggable QSFP-DD = Quad Small Form Factor Pluggable Double Density OSFP has a max power consumption of < 15W where QSFP-DD is designed for <…

We have enabled cXML PunchOut support in our web shop! What is cXML PunchOut? cXML is a standard for communication between procurement applications, e-commerce hubs and…

Wondering if there is a difference between our MSA Standard and Default configurations? Flexoptix transceivers are usually unconfigured when they are ordered without any…

What is "Single-Lambda" and why should I use it? 100G transmission is common in today's networks. Typically these transceivers are based on 4 parallel lanes that operate at…

We will introduce a new firmware version 64 and bootloader version 63 for all flexboxes. It will be released on July 6th 2020. The update will trigger automatically as soon as you…

With ALTERNATIVES - we added a new section on our product pages. There we provide links to alternatives that could be used instead of the product you are currently looking at. …

In this talk Thomas will describe in detail the structures inside optical transceivers. A Transmitter / Receiver Optical Sub Assembly (TOSA / ROSA) is no longer just a diode in…

You want it, you'll get it! The Flexoptix App underwent a little tuning session and now includes Favorite Configs. From now on you have the option to mark favorite compatibilities…

Many customers requested this feature: We now inform you beforehand on when products are back in stock. We appreciate all the input. With this feature we provide some insight in…

New Feature: Your quotes are now editable We finally did it! Your longstanding requests to be able to self-edit quotes is now available in the web shop. Thank you for your…

The beta phase has ended and our shiny new FLEXOPTIX App is officially live! What do you have to do upgrade from beta to live? Absolutely nothing! All updates are downloaded and…

The table below describes the IEEE Application Acronyms for 400G. Please note that for formfactor QSFP-DD and OSFP the electrical interface will always operate at 8 x 50G (PAM4). …

In order to keep all the reconfigure.me features available for you, we’ve decided to make our own application and while we were at it, gave it a nice clean up and new paint job.…

There are different variants for QSFP28 form factor available. Depending on your cabling and application you need to chose the right option. To make it easier we created an…

Year after year... We send out sweets all the time and - lucky you - we seldomly need to use the birch. However - now that end of the year is getting closer, we get questions…

Once upon a time, the FLEXBOX used to operate using Java. However, as major browsers began discontinuing their support for the NPAPI-based plugin, the future of Java grew dim.…

At Flexoptix, we've been busy engineering a cutting-edge FLEXBOX with C form-factor pluggable (CFP) compatibility. Our new FLEXBOX model offers Universal CFP, CFP2, and CFP4…

We send out sweets all the time and - lucky you - we seldomly need to use the birch. However - now that end of the year is getting closer, we get most charming questions regarding…

Inspect the optical link loss or locate faults in your fiber with the Distance Analyzer of your FLEXBOX in combination with our microOTDR SFP Transceiver S.OB1612.40.OD.

How to set the wavelength of your Universal XFP, SFP+ or CFP DWDM Tunable Transceiver? The tuning feature has its own view. Select it from the menu and you will find information…

Without additional equipment/devices and expenses our FLEXBOX combines all the commonalities of a physical power meter and optical light source in an intuitive and reliable…

this applies to systems 3810M, 5400R, 2920, 2930F, 2930M, 2540, and 2530 The following Systems have been tested already: Needs to have at least Software Version > 16.02.000x:…

Transceivers, transceiver ports, and cabling make up the fundamental components for transmitting data between network devices. As there are several types and sizes of all three,…

While tunable XFP started already in 2010 it took a couple of years to introduce this tuning capability to a SFP+. The main barrier was cutting down the power consumption of the…

Universal Tunable SFP+ Modules are giving you a lot of flexibility!   With tunable SFP+ you have the possibility to reduce OPEX or be flexible in terms of spare parts and…

What do discover if you are takeing a look through the internet seeking for an overview about all data-rates in one table? Yes indeed you'll find on table for Fibre Channel, one…

The legendary fussball tournament is back. Flexoptix & ECIX are happy to invite you to the 3rd RIPE "Fussball Tournament" 23rd-27th of May in Copenhagen. If you don't want to…

Thank you, dear users. After initially releasing our new HTML5 GUI as beta version, we’d like to say thanks for the plenty and great feedback. This way we can continue with…

Now Cisco! After Juniper moved the comma about two positions to the left side in EX4200 with JunOS 12.2R4 and R5 before the A/D value was converted, Cisco imitate the method on the…

A small hint for your installation with Juniper gear. We faced a very interessting situation with two EX4200 in virtual chassis setup. The following behaviour can drive you…

For QSFP+ formfactor there are different variants. I did a comparison of the optical ones - February 2014 - updated March 2018: (without Active-Optical-Cables and…

Passive CWDM over a single or duplex single mode fiber is quite common to extend your overall bandwidth. In these days when 1G Ethernet was sufficient the main limiting factor…

It is by its very nature, that all BI-directional transceivers are mostly available for single fiber usage only. There are supposed to be Multimode-purpose BIDIs available,…

Newer machines, such as the 6505, support 2, 4, 8 and 16G Fibre Channel.  However, there is only limited choice of  8G and 16G Brocade SFPs to choose from. Nevertheless, there…

Cisco’s ONS platform like the 15454, is a quite powerful WDM platform for SDH/PDH and Ethernet environments. These days, the current version of the operating system also…

Typically you can run 8G Fibre Channel SFP+ up to 25km for single mode fibre in Brocade Fabric OS (e.g. serving the new Brocades 6505, 6510 or 6520).

A few days ago, I was asked to assist in the trouble-shooting of a Multimode Fibre Tap installation.Whilst on site, I noticed the following setup:

For a few weeks running now, we have been covering the subject of multimode optic installations, something which used to be standard practice in very many 20-year old buildings.…

Universal Tunable DWDM XFP Modules are giving you a lot of flexibility!   With tunable XFP you have the possibility to reduce OPEX or be flexible in terms of spare parts…