ADVA MicroMux

Turns Any 100GbE Port Into 10 x 10GbE or 2 x 40 GbE

Support for Lower-Speed Clients Today

With No Impact on Future Scalability
Data center operators are faced with a conundrum. The
explosive growth in the cloud has made it challenging to
grow fast enough. At each build cycle, they must install
enough infrastructure to meet their future projected
growth. Yet for all the talk about future exoscale
networks and 400Gbit/s transport, the reality is that
the majority of client ports today are still 10 Gigabit
Ethernet. Theres the problem: If a data center installs
products that meet their future scalability needs, then continues to be fully utilized. For example, the ADVA
they are left without support for their current needs; FSP 3000 CloudConnect chassis currently supports 28
yet installing products that meet current needs leaves x 100 Gigabit Ethernet ports in a 4-rack unit chassis.
them unable to scale for the future. The ADVA FSP 3000 With the addition of the ADVA MicroMux, the chassis
CloudConnect MicroMux solves this conundrum. supports 280 x 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports. With the
combined ADVA FSP 3000 CloudConnect plus ADVA
Waste Not, Want Not MicroMux solution, data center operators can install
a single product that supports existing client ports, yet
Data centers are constrained by power and space. Each scales indefinitely into the future.
generation of client port technology improves both data
rate and power density. This is why data centers are Line card
quick to adopt the latest optical transceiver technologies
and operate on a very short upgrade cycle. Continuing
ADVA FSP 3000
to support previous-generation lower-speed client ports

Electrical
Interface
10 x 10GE
MPO

CloudConnect CAUI-4
can be an inefficient use of a data centers available 2 x 40GE
SR, LR MicroMux
power and space. For example, installing 10 Gigabit
Ethernet line cards into a switch, router, or transport
QSFP28 Cage
chassis optimized for 100 Gigabit Ethernet will leave
stranded bandwidth. In other words, all the bandwidth
that the slot in the chassis is capable of supporting will
not be fully used. All the unused bandwidth is wasted
space and power. Key Benefits
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Allows 100 Gigabit Ethernet ports to support
legacy clients
The ADVA MicroMux is an active QSFP28 adapter
module that works symbiotically with the ADVA Either 10 Gigabit Ethernet or 40 Gigabit Ethernet
FSP 3000 CloudConnect to convert any 100 Gigabit
Ethernet QSFP28 client port into either 10 x 10 Gigabit No loss of total system capacity
Ethernet ports or 2 x 40 Gigabit Ethernet ports. Now
data centers may install the latest, greatest, future- Both SR and LR versions are available
looking 400 Gigabit Ethernet products, while still
supporting legacy 10 Gigabit Ethernet and 40 Gigabit Fits existing QSFP28 cages with no modification
Ethernet client connections. The unique advantage of
this solution is that there is no associate loss in either To migrate from 10/40 Gigabit Ethernet,
data or power density, as the line card slot in the chassis simply remove adapter
 CloudConnect System-in-a-Box Configurations

5 Terabit

2 Terabit 9RU

4RU

Client Options Client Options

20 x 100GbE 52 x 100GbE
With 40 x 40GbE With 104 x 40GbE
ADVA MicroMux 200 x 10GbE ADVA MicroMux 520 x 10GbE

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Technical Information

Item Name TRCV QSFP 10 x 10G 850I MM MPO 10SR TRCV QSFP 10 x 10G 1310S SM MPO 10LR

System Requirements FSP 3000 CloudConnect FSP 3000 CloudConnect

Client Formats 10G Base-SR, 40G Base-SR4 10G Base-LR, 40G Base-IR4

Optical Interface 1 x MPO24 MM 1 x MPO24 SM

Laser Class Class 1 Compliant Class 1 Compliant

Management Interface SFF-8636 SFF-8636

Power Consumption 5.5W Max 5.5W Max

Temperature Range 0C to +80C 0C to +80C

Physical Dimensions QSFP28 MSA INF-8438i QSFP28 MSA INF-8438i

For more information please contact an ADVA Optical

Networking consultant or visit us at www.advaoptical.com

Fact Sheet, version 05/2016