Very occasionally a QSFP+ port might not be the correct form factor, what if you have a switch with only QSFP+ ports e.g. an Extreme Networks X770 but you need to connect up a device with an SFP+ port.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well, although you’ll be wasting a QSFP+ port this may help you. Extreme Networks provide what I tend to call a “Skeleton Adapter”, this is essentially a converter for QSFP+ to SFP+, Mellanox MAM1Q00A-QSA (Extreme: QSFP-SFPP-ADPT) Ethernet, you can use it with Single Mode or Multi-Mode SFP+ modules. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
You’ll need to partition the port from 1 x 40Gbit to 4 x 10Gbit channels, but at the point of use you’ll just see the first of the four channels for that port in use, the other 3 will be unused, and also unable to be used, so it is recommended that you just disable them to avoid confusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Very occasionally a QSFP+ port might not be the correct form factor, what if you have a switch with only QSFP+ ports e.g. an Extreme Networks X770 but you need to connect up a device with an SFP+ port. Well, although you’ll be wasting a QSFP+ port this may help you. Extreme Networks provide what … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1338,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions\/1338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}