page_title: Gigabit interface converter
hierarchical_section_title: Gigabit interface converter
caption_attribution_description: 1000baseSX Gigabit Ethernet GBIC. Scale in cm / mm. Photo taken by me --Ali@gwc.org.uk 22:23, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
context_page_description: A gigabit interface converter is a standard for transceivers, first defined in 1995 and commonly used with Gigabit Ethernet and fibre channel for some time. By offering a standard, hot swappable electrical interface, a single gigabit port can support a wide range of physical media, from copper to long-wave single-mode optical fiber, at lengths of hundreds of kilometers.
  A smaller variation of the GBIC called the small form-factor pluggable transceiver, also known as mini-GBIC, has the same functionality but in a smaller form factor. Announced in 2001, it largely made the GBIC obsolete.
context_section_description: A gigabit interface converter (GBIC) is a standard for transceivers, first defined in 1995 and commonly used with Gigabit Ethernet and fibre channel for some time. By offering a standard, hot swappable electrical interface, a single gigabit port can support a wide range of physical media, from copper to long-wave single-mode optical fiber, at lengths of hundreds of kilometers.
  A smaller variation of the GBIC called the small form-factor pluggable transceiver (SFP), also known as mini-GBIC, has the same functionality but in a smaller form factor. Announced in 2001, it largely made the GBIC obsolete.
caption: 1000BASE-SX GBIC
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