How Is A Network Transceiver Different From A Transponder?

angela lee
3 min readMay 18, 2021

In a fiber optic correspondence organization, there are numerous hardware and offices to help the typical activity of the framework. Fiber optic transponder and a network transceiver are one of these gadgets. In a real sense, the two of them are with the prefix “trans”. Imply can’t help suspecting that there is a closeness between them. All things considered, they are not the equivalent. Anyway, what’s the contrast between them, something distinction on standard or applications? Today, we will have a conversation on this point.

In the first place, to all the more likely comprehend the contrast between a network transceiver and a fiber optic transponder, we need to characterize what everyone does.

Network Transceiver

Most frameworks utilize a “transceiver” which remembers both transmission and collector for a solitary module. Its motivation, in wide terms, is to send and get information. In fibre-optic correspondence, the normally utilized network transceiver modules are hot-swappable I/O (input/yield) gadgets that plug into module attachments. The network transceiver acts to associate the electrical hardware of the module with the optical or copper organization. Gadgets, for example, switches or organization interface cards give at least one transceiver module space (e.g GBIC, SFP, XFP), into which you can embed a transceiver module that is proper for that association. The optical fiber, or wire, connects to a connector on the network transceiver module. There are various kinds of transceiver module accessible for use with various sorts of wire, fiber, various frequencies inside a fiber, and for correspondence over various distances. The most ordinarily utilized fiber optic transceivers incorporate GBIC, SFP, SFP+, XFP, CFP, QSFP and so forth They are generally utilized for various application, eg. 10G, 40G fiber optic transmission.

Fiber Optic Transponder

It incorporates a transmitter and a responder. It is a comparative gadget with the transceiver. In optical fiber interchanges, a transponder is a component that conveys and gets the optical message from a fiber. A transponder is regularly described by its information rate and the greatest distance the sign can travel. As indicated by its particular applications, it is otherwise called frequency changing over the transponder, WDM transponder or fiber to fiber media converter. Fiber optic Transponders broaden network distance by changing over frequencies (1310 to 1550), intensifying optical power and can uphold the “Three Rs” to Retime, Recover and Reshape the optical sign. All in all, there is an O-E-O (optical-electrical-optical) work with this gadget. Fiber optic transponders and optical multiplexers are generally present in the terminal multiplexer as a significant segment for WDM (Frequency Division Multiplexing) framework. Furthermore, in these days market, numerous transponders are planned as convention and rate-straightforward fiber media converters that help SFP, SFP+ and XFP transceivers with information rates up to 11.32 Gpbs, and with consistent coordination of various fiber types by changing over multi-mode fiber to single-mode fiber, and double fiber to single-fibre.

Network transceiver versus Fiber Optic Transponder

A transponder and transceiver are both practically comparable gadgets that believer a full-duplex electrical sign in a full-duplex optical sign. The contrast between the two is that fiber transceivers interface electrically with the host framework utilizing a sequential interface, though transponders utilize an equal interface. So transponders are simpler to deal with lower-rate equal signs, yet are bulkier and devour more force than transceivers. Also, transceivers are restricted to giving an electrical-optical capacity just (not separating between chronic or equal electrical interfaces), while transponders convert an optical sign at one frequency to an optical sign at another frequency. Thusly, transponders can be considered as two transceivers set one after the other.

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