The AFBR-57D5APZ is said to be the industry¡¯s first 8-Gbit/s small form-factor pluggable (SFP) optical transceiver for Fibre Channel applications. It handles link lengths up to 150 m and uses an 850-nm VCSEL source.

The transceiver is designed to be compliant with FC-PI-4 standards over multimode optical fiber at signaling rates from 8.5-Gbit/s to 2.125 Gbit/s without the need for external rate select inputs. It provides real-time temperature, supply voltage, laser bias current, laser average output power, and received input power diagnostic information and operates from -10¡ã to 85¡ãC at 3.3 V.