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One of our clients bought two of these switches. Now, Dell sent a fiber splitter with a 40GB GBIC. See the pictures below:

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Now, I connect both GBICs and connect both splitters, one in each switch, and then I use A fiber female adapter to test connectivity.

And nothing happens. I already set the no shutdown command in both switches, but it is not working.

I am not sure if I need to do something else to get these GBICs online.

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  • How are you cross-connecting the fibers and what's the configuration on the interface? 40G-SR can run as 4x10G or as 40G across 4 Tx and 4 Rx. If you want to run at the full 40G each Tx needs to be cabled to the corresponding Rx. 2 or 3 out of 4 won't bring the link up. If you run at 4x10 you can bring the links up individually and make sure they're correct.
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    Dec 19, 2016 at 5:01
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I understand you are using a 40G port with a breakout cable (4x10G). In this case, you need to split the 40G port in 4x10G ports.

From the manual:

Split a single 40G port into four 10G ports. CONFIGURATION mode stack-unit stack-unit-number port number portmode quad

number: enter the port number of the 40G port to be split.

Remember that you have to reload the device after change to take effect.

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