A Brief Overview of SFP Transceiver Type and Advantages SFP stands Small Form-factor Pluggable transceiver. It's a pluggable version of SFF. SFP are ruled by multisource agreements (MSA) from some main network element vendors resembling Agilent, IBM, Lucent, Siemens, Infineon, AMP/Tyco, and others.
This device interfaces a network device CPU board (such as a switch, router, media convertor, and others) to a fibre optic or copper networking cable. SFP transceivers are used for telecommunications and knowledge communications. And that they support SDH/SONET, Gigabit local area network, Fibre Channel, etc.