Apparatus and method for interfacing XFP optical transceiver with 300-pin MSA optical transponder

摘要

Provided are an apparatus and a method for interfacing a 10 Gbps small form factor pluggable (XFP) optical transceiver with a 300-pin multi-source agreement (MSA)_optical transceiver. The apparatus includes: a direct interface providing direct interfacing paths through which signals that can be directly interfaced with one another between the XFP optical transceiver and the 300-pin MSA optical transponder; and a processor converting clock signals and data between the XFP optical transceiver and the 300-pin MSA optical transponder so that formats of the clock signals and the data coincide with one another.