Fibre Channel - Optical Carrier Medium Variants

Optical Carrier Medium Variants

Fiber modality Speed (MByte/s) Transmitter Medium variant Distance
Single-mode fiber 1600 1310 nm longwave light 1600-SM-LC-L 0.5 m – 10 km
1490 nm longwave light 1600-SM-LZ-I 0.5 m – 2 km
800 1310 nm longwave light 800-SM-LC-L 2 m – 10 km
800-SM-LC-I 2 m – 1.4 km
400 1310 nm longwave light 400-SM-LC-L 2 m – 10 km
400-SM-LC-M 2 m – 4 km
400-SM-LL-I 2 m – 2 km
200 1550 nm longwave light 200-SM-LL-V 2 m – 50 km
1310 nm longwave light 200-SM-LC-L 2 m – 10 km
200-SM-LL-I 2 m – 2 km
100 1550 nm longwave light 100-SM-LL-V 2 m – 50 km
1310 nm longwave light 100-SM-LL-L
100-SM-LC-L		 2 m – 10 km
100-SM-LL-I 2 m – 2 km
Multimode Fiber 1600 850 nm shortwave light 1600-M5F-SN-I 0.5 m – 125 m
1600-M5E-SN-I 0.5–100 m
1600-M5-SN-S 0.5–35 m
1600-M6-SN-S 0.5–15 m
800 800-M5F-SN-I 0.5–190 m
800-M5E-SN-I 0.5–150 m
800-M5-SN-S 0.5–50 m
800-M6-SN-S 0.5–21 m
400 400-M5F-SN-I 0.5–400 m
400-M5E-SN-I 0.5–380 m
400-M5-SN-I 0.5–150 m
400-M6-SN-I 0.5–70 m
200 200-M5E-SN-I 0.5–500 m
200-M5-SN-I 0.5–300 m
200-M6-SN-I 0.5–150 m
100 100-M5E-SN-I 0.5–860 m
100-M5-SN-I 0.5–500 m
100-M6-SN-I 0.5–300 m
100-M5-SL-I 2–500 m
100-M6-SL-I 2–175 m
Multimode fiber Fiber Diameter FC media designation
OM1 62.5 µm M6
OM2 50 µm M5
OM3 50 µm M5E
OM4 50 µm M5F

Modern Fibre Channel devices support SFP transceiver, mainly with LC fiber connector. Older 1GFC devices used GBIC transceiver, mainly with SC fiber connector.

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