QSFP+ Electrical Loopbacks
The Timbercon EL-12-07002 QSFP/QSFP+ passive electrical loopback is used for testing QSFP/QSFP+ transceiver ports in board level test. By substituting for a full-featured QSFP/QSFP+ transceiver, the electrical loopback provides a cost effective low loss method for QSFP/QSFP+ port testing.
The EL-12-07002 is packaged in a standard MSA housing compatible with all QSFP/QSFP+ ports. Transmit data from the host is electrically routed (internal to the loopback module) to the receive data outputs and back to the host. Since the loopback module does not contain laser diodes, photodiodes, laser driver or transimpedance amplifier chips, etc., it provides an economical way to exercise QSFP/QSFP+ ports during R&D validation, production testing, and field testing. The EL-12-07002 provides QSFP/QSFP+ power Class 1, 2, 3 or 4 loading using a customer supplied +3.3V voltage supply.
In addition to the electrical loopback function, the EL-12-07002 provides an MSA standard 2-wire serial communication interface to digital diagnostics and pre-loaded EEPROM memory maps; both standard and custom memory maps are available.