How To Choose The Ideal Fiber Transceiver Supplier?

A typical RFP - Request For Proposal network transmission project from a customer that wants a new roll out of a DC - Data Center or new network transmission link or an upgrade of the existing ones, it is focusing of the main components such as switches, routers, servers, storages and applications. These are the main components that have a big impacts on the final cost of the project.

The above components have each one their own communication ports or NIC’s - Network Interconnection Controllers that have to be connected to the communication medium - most likely the fiber optic patches or backbone lines.  These ports are brought alive with the use of transceivers that match the ports communication properties such as throughput, protocol with the available transmission medium such as copper or fiber.

The final customer tends to lower the initial CAPEX - Capital Expenditure - which is are funds used by a company to acquire or upgrade physical assets such as property, industrial buildings or equipment. One part of the total project investment is the ‘plug’ section of the final BOM -Bill of Material. This BOM part contain transceivers like SFP, SFP+, QSFP and so on. At this point the choice of low quality pluggable originating from China manufacturers is equivalent with buying a premium like Mercedes Benz car and choosing retreaded tires. This poor choice of tires affects the automobile capacity to perform efficient braking and the periods between vulcanization to be shorter.

In similar way, a cheap chinese pluggable means means an increase of OPEX - Operational Expenditures in network ulterior operation. NoName and 3rd Party OEM SFP Transceivers mostly use cheap components of Asian companies, in the worst case cheap replicas from China. These SFP Transceivers have a function at the very first moment, but they cannot achieve the longevity of market leading manufacturers of SFP Transceivers products. A poor quality transceiver will increase the number of hours paid to field technicians to identify and remedy the faulty optical links. These down time periods affects the overall performance SLA quality of the whole network.

Our transceivers are manufactured combining high quality components such as high precision lasers and use components from the respective market-leading manufacturers in the USA such as Avago, Oclaro and Lumentum lasers and Maxim Integrated, Netlogic, Mindspeed or Analog Devices ICs. While SFP Transceivers are usually sold at a very high price, GBIC-Shop can offer SFP Transceivers at a significantly lower cost due to own production without sacrificing quality. As a result, BlueOptics SFP Transceivers achieve a lifetime of up to 10 years.

Another quality of the spare or faulty pluggable that is overseen by many network operators and administrators is the availability and on-time delivery of the spare or faulty items.  Chinese manufacturing suppliers can not beat the GBIC-Shop delivering times. Through a close cooperation with the logistics service provider UPS, GBIC-Shop can offer various shipping options to provide you with the SFP Transceivers you need as quickly as possible. Orders for SFP Transceiver goods received by 4:00 p.m. can be shipped on the same day. The following UPS shipping methods are available for shipping SFP Transceivers

• Standard - Delivery of your SFP Transceiver - 95% shipped within one working day
• Express Saver - Delivery of your SFP Transceiver until 12 a.m. the next working day
• Express - Delivery of your SFP Transceiver until 10.30 a.m. the next working day
• Express Plus - Delivery of your SFP Transceiver until 9 a.m. the next working day

The data refer to the dispatch area in Germany, in other countries the delivery times for SFP Transceivers may differ.