OSFP MSA

OSFP MSA – Octal Small Form Factor Pluggable (OSFP) Multi Source Agreement (MSA). The OSFP (x8) and its denser OSFP-XD (x16) variants both support the latest signaling rate of 224G PAM4 per lane (for example 8 x 200G = 1.6 Tbps Ethernet). They are compatible with PCIe Gen5 / CXL 1.1, 2.0 (32G NRZ), PCIe Gen6 / CXL 3.x (64G PAM4) and PCIe Gen7 / CXL 4.x (128G PAM4). This OSFP cabling system is future-proof for 2 generations ahead in the PCIe domain. It is also ready for UALink that reuses Ethernet IO at the electrical level.