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ProLabs Introduction

www.prolabs .com

Tuesday 11th October, 2016

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What products do ProLabs sell?

OEM Compatibility – verified and tested in target equipment

Transceivers DACs & AOCs

Media Converters Fiber Cables Mux/DeMux | WDM

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ProLabs at a Glance

●ProLabs founded in 2004 –Global presence: UK HQ; Offices throughout Europe/Asia/US

–22,000 square feet of warehousing

●More than 4 million devices deployed globally

●One of the largest independent providers of compatible optical transceivers

●Products are compatible with over 50 OEM vendors and come with a lifetime warranty

●Reputation for competitive pricing, flexibility, quality and reliability

●Trusted supplier to long standing customers (service providers, distributors, resellers, integrators and end-users)

●Coding and testing lab located in UK

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ProLabs – Why?

●ProLabs believe that organisations should be free to choose technology solutions that are the best fit for their business without paying inflated prices

●Better Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

●Solve interoperability issues

●Offer extended range of options to the OEMs

●Provide freedom from proprietary connectivity ●Quality, reliability and responsiveness

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100% Compatible With …

And others…

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but this doesn’t tell the whole story…

Typical SP – Many vendors

●Multiple OEM equipment vendors

●Transceiver inventory control! ●Legacy systems support

ProLabs can offer: ●A single source for each vendor compatible transceiver ●A wider range of transceiver options than each individual OEM can support ●Support legacy systems & obsolete OEMs

●Interoperability knowledge

●Rapid delivery

●100% Compatibility

●Lifetime warranty

SP

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Multi-vendor transceivers A single transceiver which is compatible

with up to 3 vendor platforms

Application •ProLabs Multi-coded transceivers are designed to work in more

than one vendor platform allowing customers to streamline

their purchasing, inventory holding and deployment processes.

Features and Benefits •A Prolabs multi-coded transceiver is fully interoperable with up to

three vendor platforms; such as Cisco, Juniper and Arista.

•Initial product range targets Datacentre and Telco customers that

have Cisco, Juniper and Arista equipment. More multi coded

vendor options to follow. Please ask!

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Lab Capability

Compatible Coding System Compatible Test Transceiver Diagnostics

Tunable Optics & Test Physical Layer Test

125Mb ~ 40Gb

SMF

MMF

Optical Port Inspection

Proof of Concept RMA/Fault Analysis Multi-Vendor Interop.

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Transceiver Types

GBIC SC connectors, GE and fiber

channel , 80Km max reach

SFP Most Common form factor up

to 4Gbit/s

Xenpak 1st gen. up to 80km, SC

Connectors

X2 2nd gen. up to 80km, SC Connectors

XFP 3rd gen. up to 80km, LC Connectors,

tunable version available

SFP+ 4th gen. up to 80km, LC

Connectors, tunable version and DAC and

AOC available

CFP 1st generation at 40/100G

CFP2 2nd generation at100G

QSFP+/QSFP28 current

generation for 40/100G

transceivers, passive DAC

cables and AOC cables

<10G

10G

40/100G

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The ProLabs Range

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ProLabs Cisco Brocade Juniper Arista Dell/Force10

Range of Products

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The ProLabs Range

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ProLabs Cisco Brocade Juniper Arista Dell/Force10

Range of Products

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ProLabs Products

Download the new catalogue http://www.prolabs.com/catalogue/

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ProLabs Transceivers– CWDM and DWDM

●Full range of DWDM and CWDM transceivers

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Warranty

●Contrary to what many believe, the use of compatible transceiver does not void the warranty of the platform: the transceivers are accessories and can be purchased independently

●ProLabs guarantees its transceivers with a lifetime warranty and with advanced replacement ●The majority of the OEM’s provide only a one year warranty on the transceiver

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Applications

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ProLabs - FTTx

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ProLabs – Data Centre Solutions

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10G Copper Transceivers

●Key Product Features

–Supports Links up to 30m using

Cat 6a/7 Cable

–SFF-8431 and SFF-8432 MSA

Compliant

–Lower EMI Emissions

–RJ45 Connector

●Key Product Benefits

–Cost effective at up to 30m

distance on UTP cables

–Architecture Flexibility: Supports

Top of Rack, Middle of Row or End

of Row architectures

–Allows hybrid BASE-T/SFP+

architectures

–Equip SFP+ ports of servers /

switches with 10GBASE-T SFP+

–Easy upgrade from 1G, reuse

structured cabling

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DACs & AOCs

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Hybrid Direct Attach Cables

The two extremities can be encoded for several OEMs to ensure perfect

interoperability

e.g. Cisco e.g. Juniper e.g. Cisco e.g. Arista

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ProLabs Cables Portfolio

Form Factor

Data Rate Direct

Attach Cable

Active Copper Cable

Active Optical Cable

SFP+ to

SFP+

10G 0.5m

to

7m

7m, 15m 1m

to

100m

QSFP+

to

4x SFP+

40G to 4x10G

1m, 3m, 5m

1m

to

100m

QSFP+

to

QSFP+

40G 1m, 3m, 5m

1m

to

100m

Download the new catalogue http://www.prolabs.com/catalogue/

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Mux/Demux

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Mux/Demux

●Make better use of existing fibers –Passive devices, do not require power, supervision, configuration

–Extremely reliable

●ProLabs offer –CWDM mux/demux (1-2-4-8 channels, 20nm) and single mux or demux (8 and 18 channels)

–DWDM mux/demux (2, 4, 8, 40 channels, 100GHz) –CWDM & DWDM mux/demux single fiber (4 and 8 channels) –CWDM & DWDM Optical Add & Drop multiplexers (1, 2, 3 , 4 channels)

Find your Demux via the link http://www.prolabs.com/products/multiplexers/

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CWDM Mux/Demux Overview

Site A

Mux Mux WDM transceivers WDM transceivers

Single mode fibre cable Single mode fibre cable

Site A Site B

Attenuator Attenuator

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Media Convertors

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Media Converters

Bit Rate RJ45 port Optics Temp range

PoE Managed

10/100/1000 YES fixed MM, 550m 0 - 70 No No

10/100/1000 YES fixed SM, 10Km 0 - 70 No No

10/100/1000 YES SFP 0m - 80Km 0 - 70 No No

10/100/1000 YES SFP 0m - 80Km -40 - 85 No No

10/100/1000 YES SFP 0m - 80Km 0 - 70 No YES

10/100/1000 YES SFP 0m - 80Km 0 - 50 YES, 25W No

10/100/1000 YES SFP 0m - 80Km 0 - 50 YES, 50W No

10/100/1000 YES SFP 0m - 80Km -40 - 85 YES, 30W No

10G YES SFP+ 0m to 80Km

0 - 70 No No

10G YES SFP+ 0m to 80Km

0 - 70 No YES

10G NO SFP+ to SFP+ 0 - 70 No No

10G NO XFP to XFP 0 - 70 No No

10G NO XFP to SFP+ 0 - 70 No No

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Why choose ProLabs ?

●Experience –Our team comes from some of the major networking vendors (Cisco, HP, Force10, TE) and can assist in choosing the most suitable product for your application

●Lead time –The majority of the products are delivered in 1-2 weeks

●Same quality of the original products at a favourable price

–Lifetime warranty on our products; most of the manufacturers only provide a one year warranty!

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Questions?

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Thank You! www.prolabs.com