Patent ID: 7314319

Claim:
An optical transceiver, which is mounted in a cage of a host board, the optical transceiver comprising: a transceiver chassis into which is fitted an optical transmitting/receiving module; and a cover fixed to the transceiver chassis so as to cover the optical transmitting/receiving module, wherein the cover is formed with a pair of slits in respective sides of the cover, each slit being formed so as to extend from one end of the cover on a connector-inserted/removed opening side toward an other end on a card edge portion side, and wherein the cover has an internal surface height lower than a height of the transceiver chassis at a portion covered by the cover, and the height of the transceiver chassis at the portion covered by the cover is a height from an upper surface of the transceiver chassis to a lowermost surface of the optical transmitting/receiving module fitted into the transceiver chassis, or is a height from a lower surface of the transceiver chassis to an uppermost surface of the optical transmitting/receiving module fitted into the transceiver chassis.