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Why is 10Gb SFP+ port showing 4.3Gbps Speed?

Just to address the SNMP portion of your question, I'm guessing that you are seeing the 4.3Gbps result from querying the SNMP object 'ifSpeed'. If so, you are simply getting back the maximum value ...
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SFP+ transceiver's ability to do 1GbE

Short answer: in theory yes, in practice no. Long answer: There are SFP+ optics which can also work at 1 GbE, I've talked (sorry, no other source than that) to people who were experimenting with it ...
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Why does 10Gbps ethernet claim PAM16 encoding then use a squared DSQ128 constellation?

You're talking about 10GBASE-T - most other 10G flavors use straight 64b/66b (10GBASE-R), but that doesn't work on 500 MHz Cat 6A. With 10GBASE-T, two consecutive PAM-16 levels (on each lane) ...
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Extremely long time to establish network link with Nexus N9K-C9372-PX-E

If you have a switch with a default configuration, spanning tree will block ports when they come up until the forwarding timer expires. You can configure portfast on ports that have end hosts on them ...
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Why is there a separate set of 10 Gigabit fiber-optic transmission standards for WANs/SONET?

From IEEE 802.3 Clause 50.1: (emphasis mine) The WAN Interface Sublayer (WIS) is an optional PHY sublayer that may be used to create a 10GBASE-W PHY that is data-rate and format compatible with the ...
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Enabling flow control on my ethernet NIC

You were closer than you think to getting it working. In fact the problem may have simply been that flow control wasn't enabled on the switch. The ethtool source code (rev 3.18) and a register ...
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LC dual pair converter to 10GBASE-T

If using dual pair LC fiber to run 10GbE over a long distance, what's the best way to connect it to a server on one end which has a 10GBASE-T port? The best way is to get a server NIC with SFP+ slots ...
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Enabling flow control on my ethernet NIC

Most of this doesn't matter, ethernet flow control has never been widely supported and most switch devices will respect PAUSE frames, but not send them. That being said, your questions can be ...
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Why is 10Gb SFP+ port showing 4.3Gbps Speed?

Little late to the website so you may have moved on but, We use Solarwinds. Under the edit node properties there is a check box for 64-bit counters. It is probably not checked. Seen the problem you've ...
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Can I use a 40G transceiver in a QSFP56 NIC to connect to a 10G transceiver/switch if the NIC supports 10G speeds?

The only way you'd be able to keep using the same 40G QSFP is to get a 40G-SR4 and break it out to 4x10GE coming from the NIC and then connect one of those 10G's to your 4500. Once you have a switch ...
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What is the Difference between SFP+ and XSFP?

SFP+ modules leave more circuitry to be implemented on the host board whereas XFP or XENPACK implemented those circuitries inside the module. Normally, you don't have to know that because you just ...
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10Gbase-T vs 10Gbase-TX

You can't find a standard for "TX" because there's no such thing. 10Gbase-T is defined by 802.3an-2006. I've never seen anyone call it "10Gbase-TX". ('tho there is a 10Gbase-T1 for ...
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Adapting 10GBaseT and NBaseT with a PoE Injector?

"NBASE-T" or "MGBASE-T" is any speed from 2.5GBASE-T or 5GBASE-T (sometimes including 10GBASE-T). The best speed in common between a 10/100/1000/10GBase-T and a 10/100/1000/NBase-T ...
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Would 1000BASE-T clients see benefits if connected to a 10GBase-T server via a 10Gbe switch

You would definately see a benefit. You are sharing the 1Gbit link to your server with several clients so your bottleneck would be a the 1Gbit link to your server. Once you have 10Gbit connected, that ...
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Would 1000BASE-T clients see benefits if connected to a 10GBase-T server via a 10Gbe switch

It depends on your bandwidth utilization. If your current 1G connections to the server are not fully utilized, then you won't get any benefit from 10G. Although there's nothing bad in 10G, it may be ...
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Setting up Cisco TenGig ethernet SFP on ASR 1001-x

Problem solved: Somewhere along the troubleshooting path the SFP was removed and reinserted without rebooting the router. We tried a reboot today and the interface came up successfully. I don't know ...
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Reliable transfer but unreliable auto-negotiation?

You simply cannot mix shielded and unshielded parts in a link. The shield only works if it continuous end-to-end and properly grounded on both ends. The actual wires in shielded cabling cannot meet ...
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SFP+ 10GBASE-LR and attenuator

Most 10 km PHYs can talk to each other even over very short links. The key is whether the max launch power overshoots the max receive power, effectively blinding the receiver. With this transceiver, ...
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Can 40GBASE-LR4 be used for 4x10G?

Just for people looking at this answer now (close to 3 years after the original answers): today you can get QSFP+ PLR4 transceivers that support 4x10G breakout over SMF (long range). These ...
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Router System Capacity Vs Packet Forwarding Capacity

We cannot know for sure what Juniper refers to when stating "system capacity 80gps" If we take the embedded 4 x 10G interface and we use them at full duplex then we get 80gbps. So it could refer to ...
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Fiber optic cable juniper ex4500

The OM3 fiber you linked to should do nicely, OM3 supports 10GBASE-SR for up to 300 m. As per Ron's comment, you should make sure that the fiber is crossed over - the (left) transmitter side needs to ...
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Cisco catalyst 45xx series compatibility with RG45 10Gb

I know that with the WS-C4507R+E supervisor, you can use the WS-X4712-SFP+E Catalyst 4500 E-Series 12-Port 10GbE (SFP+) line card. The SFP+ slots can use either 1 Gb SFP or 10 Gb SFP+ transceivers. ...
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Latency of AOC vs passive DAC

The difference here is incredibly trivial - literally on the order of single-digit nanoseconds. The amount of time it takes to get the packet organized and across the switch is likely 2- to 3- orders ...
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SFP to RJ45 for 10Gbit network

First a 10 Gbps network adapters use SFP+, not SFP. Next, you can get a 10GBase-T SFP+ module for your adapter, rather than one of the fiber variants. In most cases, 10 Gbps adapters will have SPF+ ...
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Single mode, single strand fiber handles 1Gbit but not 10Gbit

Try to link the pair of transceivers with a simple patch cable - not all of them are compatible and the wavelengths need to match (crossed over). There's no offical standard for 10GBASE-BR (as it ...
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SFP+ 10GBASE-LR and attenuator

Launch power max 0.5 dBm, receive power max 0.5 dBm. Should be fine. Also, -8.2 to 0.5 dBm is a huge range for launch power, although this may be specified with aging in mind (launch power reduces ...
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Max cable length when using 10GBASE-T SFP+ transceiver

Yes, the transceiver actually reduces the maximum cable length. This reduction is due to the maximum power draw of an SFP+ module of 2 Watt and 10GBASE-T requiring considerable power because of the ...
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Support for 10GBase-T RJ45 SFP+ transceivers

In many enterprises, switches and accessories are required to be under active vendor support. That leaves you with officially supported SFP modules and their support in switches. Technically, using ...
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How does Ethernet driver know if the cable is plugged in?

Link detection is specific to the physical layer. The original coax Ethernet did not really have link state detection (some PHYs had a mechanism for detecting termination during transmission but it ...
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Intel x520 SFP+ connecting to a J9264A HP Procure 6600 switch

The Intel cards are usually agnostic when it comes to SFPs in my experience, but DAC-cables are a bit of a grey area since there's no standard governing them if I can remember correctly. So if you ...
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