Fiber Optic Communication

Almost all modern optical transceivers utilize two fibers to transmit data between switches, firewalls, servers, routers, etc. One fiber is dedicating to receiving data from networking equipment while the other fiber is dedicating to transmitting data to the networking equipment. A new optical transceiver technology is now available that allows transceivers to both transmit and receive data to/from interconnected equipment through a single optical fiber. This technology first emerged about 7 years ago and had led to the development of Bi-Directional transceivers, or BiDi transceivers for short. The Bi-Directional Small Form Factor Pluggable (BiDi) is a compact optical transceiver module which is used in optical communication for both telecommunications and data bidirectional communications applications. It interfaces a network device mother board (for a switch, router or similar device) to a fiber optic or unshielded twisted pair networking cable. It is a popular industry format sup...