Choose the right transceivers for scalability and cost efficiency

Your hands-on guide to a smarter optics strategy

Choosing the wrong transceiver can lead to network bottlenecks, higher costs and limited scalability. But with the right guidance, you can make confident decisions that maximize fiber utilization, ensure interoperability with your infrastructure and avoid costly overhauls.

This guide walks you through the key technical and operational factors to consider when selecting transceivers, including:

• Clear explanations and illustrative scenarios across a range of use cases
• A form factor comparison table to match optics to your infrastructure and needs
• A checklist to help you avoid common pitfalls and plan for long-term scalability

Whether you're expanding a metro or regional backbone, upgrading data center interconnects or scaling a peering network, you’ll learn how to:

• Expand fiber capacity with DWDM multiplexing
• Simplify your architecture with pluggable, compact transceivers
• Scale efficiently with aggregation, breakout and future-ready form factors