Glasgow, UK September 29th, 2023 – The Quad Small Form Factor Pluggable Double Density (QSFP-DD) Multi Source Agreement (MSA) group announced today at the European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC 2023), the release of a hardware specification revision 7.0 updating the QSFP-DD MSA Specification, and introducing QSFP-DD1600. The new specification maintains the form factor’s eight…
Quad Small Form Factor Pluggable Double Density MSA releases Hardware and Common Management Interface Specifications plus a new whitepaper on thermal design Chicago – May 24, 2021 – The Quad Small Form Factor Pluggable Double Density (QSFPDD) Multi Source Agreement (MSA) group today announces the release of a hardware specification revision 6.0 updating QSFP-DD, introducing…
Quad Small Form Factor Pluggable Double Density MSA releases both Common Management Interface 4.0 and Hardware Specification 5.0 San Jose, CA – July 11, 2019 – The Quad Small Form Factor Pluggable Double Density (QSFP-DD) Multi Source Agreement (MSA) group today announces the release of an updated Common Management Interface Specification (CMIS) revision 4.0 for…
Quad Small Form Factor Pluggable Double Density MSA releases both Hardware and Common Management Interface Specifications Rome, Italy – September 18, 2018 – The Quad Small Form Factor Pluggable Double Density (QSFP-DD) Multi Source Agreement (MSA) group today announces the release of an updated 4.0 Hardware specification for the QSFP-DD form factor. In total, 66…
Quad Small Form Factor Pluggable Double Density MSA Validation of Members Designs San Jose, CA – August 30, 2018 – The Quad Small Form Factor Pluggable Double Density (QSFP-DD) Multi Source Agreement (MSA) group announces the success of their mechanical plug fest. In total, 15 of the 64 companies came together for a full day…
Data and performance analyzed to show feasibility of 15W QSFP-DD modules San Diego, CA – March 13, 2018 – Molex, Cisco, Juniper Networks and other Multi Source Agreement (MSA) group members will release a white paper focused on the Quad Form Factor Pluggable Double Density (QSFP-DD) during the Optical Networking and Communication Conference and Exhibition…
Quad Small Form Factor Pluggable Double Density MSA releases 3.0 Hardware Specification Gothenburg, Sweden – September 19, 2017 – The Quad Small Form Factor Pluggable Double Density (QSFP-DD) Multi Source Agreement (MSA) group has released an updated 3.0 Hardware specification for the new QSFP-DD form factor. In total, 62 companies came together in support of…
Quad Small Form Factor Pluggable Double Density module enables up to 400 Gbps solutions, quadruples bandwidth in network applications Los Angeles, CA – March 13, 2017 – The Quad Small Form Factor Pluggable Double Density (QSFP-DD) Multi Source Agreement (MSA) group has released a specification for the new QSFP-DD form factor. In total, 52 companies…
Consortium issues draft drawings and specifications for eight-lane module Düsseldorf, Germany – September 19, 2016 – The Quad Small Form Factor Pluggable Double Density, or QSFP-DD, Multi Source Agreement (MSA) Group announces the release of preliminary hardware specifications, including drawings, for the new QSFP-DD form factor. QSFP-DD expands on the widely adopted four-lane QSFP pluggable…
Consortium to Define Double-Density QSFP Modules through QSFP-DD Multi-Source Agreement ANAHEIM, CA – March 21, 2016 – The QSFP-DD Multi Source Agreement (MSA) Group announced today at the Optical Fiber Communications Conference in Anaheim, CA a plan to develop high-speed, double-density quad small form factor pluggable (QSFP-DD) interfaces. The primary objective of the MSA Group…
