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What is dumb about them?
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semisol 1y ago

dumb as in implementation

they are just a photodiode and a LED/laser, maybe with a DSP chip for the very long distance + 100Gbps with no MPO ones

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phil 1y ago

Coherent optics are a bit more interesting with the DSP functionality they have built in but yeah most of the common regular SFPs are pretty simple.

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semisol 1y ago

The very-high-range modules also would have some amount of processing, I would assume