Installation and Cables

NT80E3-2-PTP Running at 8 × 10 Gbit/s

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This chapter describes installation of a Napatech NT80E3-2-PTP SmartNIC to run at 8 × 10 Gbit/s, where this differs from the installation of a Napatech NT80E3-2-PTP SmartNIC to run at 2 × 40 Gbit/s.

Installing NT80E3-2-PTP

A Napatech NT80E3-2-PTP or NT80E3-2-PTP-NEBS SmartNIC to run at 8 × 10 Gbit/s must be installed as described in DN-0980 or DN-0981, respectively.
Note: For the optical solution the fiber optic cable used must be a 4 × 10 Gbit/s optical breakout cable.
Note: For the electrical solution the QSFP+ module and the cable is combined in a QSFP+ 40GBASE-CR4 to SFP+ 10GBASE-CR copper breakout cable.

Optical breakout cables

For information on available optical breakout cables, see DN-0515 on docs.napatech.com (the Napatech Documentation Portal).

Apart from these cables, this table shows an MPO to LC cassette that has been used by Napatech as an examples of a usable optical breakout device.

Type Length (in m) Vendor Vendor Part Number
MPO Cassette, 2 × 12F, 50/125 OM4 LC, KEY UP & DOWN - Amphenol 948-100-5462-51

Electrical breakout cables

This table shows some electrical 4 × 10 Gbit/s breakout cables that have been used by Napatech as examples of usable electrical breakout cables.

Type Length (in m) Vendor Vendor Part Number
QSFP+ to 4 SFP+ Splitter Cable, Passive Copper, Black 1 Amphenol SF-QSFP4SFPPS-001
QSFP+ to 4 SFP+ Splitter Cable, Passive Copper, Black 3 Amphenol SF-QSFP4SFPPS-003
QSFP+ to 4 SFP+ Splitter Cable, Passive Copper, Black 5 Amphenol SF-QSFP4SFPPS-005

Breakout cable pinout

This table shows the cable pinout for 12-ribbon breakout cables.

MPO Connector Pin LC Duplex Connector Pin SmartNIC Virtual 10 Gbit/s Port
1 TX on LC Duplex 1 Port 0
2 TX on LC Duplex 2 Port 1
3 TX on LC Duplex 3 Port 2
4 TX on LC Duplex 4 Port 3
5 Unused -
6 Unused -
7 Unused -
8 Unused -
9 RX on LC Duplex 4 Port 3
10 RX on LC Duplex 3 Port 2
11 RX on LC Duplex 2 Port 1
12 RX on LC Duplex 1 Port 0