Solved: Re: Meraki bidi support

Brayden · ‎09-15-2022

Do Meraki switches support 10GB MMF bidirectional transceivers

GIdenJoe · ‎09-18-2022

AFAIK BIDI is not used in 10 GB SFP's with Meraki but is actually more common for using a single pair of fiberstrands to form 40Gbps links instead of using the MPO12 that uses 8 fiberstrands. Hence the QSFP-40G-SR-BD (BD stands for BiDi).

If you mean bidirectional link over a single strand like the BXD-I and -U that Cisco supports then no I don't see support for it in Meraki.

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GiacomoS · ‎09-15-2022

Hey @Brayden ,

You can find the whole list of supported SFPs in our documentation here.

As far as I can see, it does include 10GB MMF SFPs.

Hope this helps!

Giac

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GreenMan · ‎09-16-2022

If I recall, BIDI involves send and receive over the same fibre core. I don't believe Meraki switches support this.

GIdenJoe · ‎09-18-2022

AFAIK BIDI is not used in 10 GB SFP's with Meraki but is actually more common for using a single pair of fiberstrands to form 40Gbps links instead of using the MPO12 that uses 8 fiberstrands. Hence the QSFP-40G-SR-BD (BD stands for BiDi).

If you mean bidirectional link over a single strand like the BXD-I and -U that Cisco supports then no I don't see support for it in Meraki.

andrew-w · ‎11-01-2022

There are no modules officially supported on Meraki's SFP page, but I have some 10GTek 10GBase-BIDI links operating successfully. This is SMF though, not sure if they also offer MMF solutions.