To meet ever-growing bandwidth requirements of service provider and data center networks, 100 Gigabit Ethernet was officially standardized in July 2010 under IEEE 802.3ba. In response, Gigalight 's engineers deliver industry-leading, standards-compliant, 100G pluggable optical transceivers . This Multisource Agreement (MSA)-compliant, CFP modules help to provide connectivity options within service provider core networks, and from service provider networks to large data centers. Modern data center traffic is becoming more and heavier, and east-west flow between servers if you haven't adopted the new two-tier Ethernet switching architecture called leaf-spin. They get you the highest density interconnects between data center switches and to the outside world. Let's see which ones belong where at the bottom we have the leaf switches and servers. The 100G QSFP downlinks on the leaf switches break out into 425G QSFP connections one for each server copper cables are lowest ...