In conclusion, let’s never shy away The rapid growth of server, network, and internet traffic drives the need for higher data rate, higher density, and lower cost optical fiber Ethernet solutions, especially in data centers.
As 10 Gbit/s speed is not fast enough to some enterprises, the IEEE 802.3 working group put up the 802.3ba standard of 40 and 100 Gbit/s. For 40G port types, there are 40G-CR4, 40G-KR4, 40GBASE-SR4, 40GBASE-LR4, 40GBASE-ER4, 40G-FR, 40GBASE-T.