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Glossary: Resilience and Recovery

SFP (Small Form-factor Pluggable)

Also written: SFPs

A small hot-swappable transceiver module that replaced the GBIC. Keeping spares on the shelf turns a failed module into a fix of minutes, not days.

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Related terms

GBIC (Gigabit Interface Converter)transceiverhot-swappable