CPAK-100G-SR10 Genuine Cisco CPAK-100G-SR10 100GBASE-SR10 CPAK for MMF

Cisco CPAK-100G-SR10 - Overview

The SR10 variant of the CPAK family is optimized for short-reach, high-density data center interconnects. It uses 10 parallel multimode fiber pairs (20 fibers total) with an MPO-24 connector.

🔧 Key Specifications

• Form Factor: Cisco CPAK (compact, lower power than CFP/CFP2)
• Standard: 100GBASE-SR10 (IEEE 802.3ba compliant)
• Wavelength: 850 nm (multimode optics)
• Reach:
  • Up to 100 m over OM3 MMF
  • Up to 150 m over OM4 MMF
• Interface: MPO-24 optical connector (12 transmit + 12 receive fibers, 10 active each direction)
• Data Rate: 100 Gbps (10x 10 Gbps parallel lanes)
• Power Consumption: ~3.5 W (significantly lower than CFP SR10)
• Applications:
  • High-density data center interconnects
  • Switch-to-switch or router-to-switch short-range uplinks
  • High-performance computing (HPC) clusters

🧩 Ideal Use Cases

• Data centers requiring short-range 100G connectivity between aggregation and core switches
• High-performance computing environments with dense, parallel fiber cabling
• Enterprise backbones where short-haul 100G links are needed