
What is different with SFP and mini GBIC?
The small form-factor pluggable (SFP) is also called Mini GBIC is a hot-pluggable transceiver used for both telecommunication and data communications applications. It interfaces a network device for a switch, router, media converter or similar device to a fiber optic or copper networking cable. And SFP transceivers are designed to support communications standards including SDH, SONET, Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and other communications standards.
> 155Mb/s:SDH STM-1 SONET OC-3 Fast Ethernet