What is the Difference between RJ45 and SFP - Which is best for my Home or Business 10GBe setup

[Music] hello and welcome back spam TV today we want to talk about a subject to do with 10 GbE namely we let's talk about rj45 and SSP now on this time we have been talking a lot about 10 gigabit mainly one we're talking about now so let's be honest we're talking on there's a lot here at MTV but more often or not people have been asking what is the main difference maybe they're thinking about investing in the new 10gbe set up for their home or office and if you're in your home well done you're doing well for yourself or they simply don't understand the difference because ultimately when you start looking at 10gbe solutions or you know your internal network putting like VMs and file transitions and communication between all the multiple machines in your environment and often you will be left with the choice of SFP or rj45 rj45 of course being the more commonly known one so heavily associated with that lamp on the back of your PC there into 1 GB format now there are advantages and disadvantages to bugs and do not treat this video is some means of me telling you that one is better than the other because ultimately neither of them are come out a flat winner both have advantages and disadvantages so what I'm going to do is introduce you to each and then talk to you about some of the strengths and weaknesses of bugs so straight up we'll go over the one that you're more familiar with and we're going to talk about rj45 and 10 GbE over rj45 now first things first I should mention I'll probably mention again during the video if you are thinking about connecting an ass that features 10 gb / sspr rj45 always ensure that the device in question provides enough power both ends at the host machine that's going to be plugged into one end of the switch and then as it's connected so regardless of which one of these you Gopal always make sure unless power is being provided otherwise you won't make a blind bit of difference which one of these do you go to for particularly SFP because well the transceivers they need additional power to keep things moving along but so first things first if you're using a 10 DB connection in your environment as rj45 either you can use cat 6 or cat 7 cables to get the best possible speed and it's the way that the cables are produced the comparing cyberattacks now if you look at the cable itself it looks almost indistinguishable from existing rj45 that are used in one DBE connections so we've got this cable here and obviously they come a lot longer than this but it's looking at a smaller to get it all on camera and again once again it's a cat 6 got are far more you know rugged connection there to go inside but you can also use cat 6 cables on standard 1gb a rj45 slots as well so you might already have that in place one of the main advantages people find of going for rj45 based MTBE is the upgrading of your existing setup has far less friction you cannot you can use a lot of chunked cables in your walls and you might already have the cables in place don't do upgrade to rj45 by 10gbe because all you're changing is in the host machines the connection and including in this case a PCIe card that has that 1 GB port on it absolutely one can be rj45 10 GB equal so if we open this bad boy up this is a carpet I believe this is an Intel car and the paper petard itself is utilized again it's compatible with you naps as well and this is a 10 GbE rj45 culture this would go inside your host server now as all machines are connecting and you would connect one in bed and the other end o whether this is direct point-to-point with your switch or this is running into clunking by your home or office therefore connecting into your switch I've another switch it and that will give you 10 access to 10 Gigabit Ethernet throughout your internal network and again I can't stress it enough this is definitely the easier of the two in terms of upgrading from an existing 1 GB because as I say the cables are the same for 1 GB and 10 GbE it is a question whether the cat 6 cat 7 cables that you go for now we leave that there some of the inherent advantages and disadvantages of 10 GB a other base those refer to a 10 GB base T it's okay the cost of deployment whether it's setting up or upgrading all migrating from existing set up while maintaining the older setup so you can actually slowly upgrade a whole host of machines you don't have to do all of them at once next you have much much longer cables available to purchase we'll talk about that more later on with SSP but long story short rj45 cables can be purchased in much much longer lengths pre-made whereas with SSP you can only really get some one or even five to ten metres Premo after that you have to give real fiber cabling and the transceivers whereas if you're you know if your distances aren't that big you can look into pre-made cables that have to try to versatility but we'll get to that back to that later wrong with a set page so again it's a lower cost and you can get most of the components ready-made off the shelf at a lower cost - on top of that people are familiar with this cable and setup is both easy and highly integrated with your existing setup or no of all you can't touch on that and also cables are much it's much easier to use patches between cables to bridge existing setup something that's very difficult with SSP and and lastly fall backwards compatibility so if you once again if you've got machines that run got one GBA and we're only half upgrading of setup you can connect your set up to those 1gb enabled rj45 machines in that environment don't get me wrong they will only be able to work as 1gb port but it's great that all of these can still run into the same network and still communicate at different speeds of course by based on the N machine but it's nice you've got that bridge between the backwards compatibility so now we move on to SSP now SSP is I would say the more industrial of the two for a start it has a lower latency which in you know in basic terms is speed it with of which things travel and what you want is a lower number as possible basically the recognition of something going back for a higher latency results in much slower it is the result of slower connections what you want is a low any other much much lower latency consistently with SSP the longer your cat6 cables are the longer distance you're covering the high latency becomes so it's very important to make sure if speed is key to you SFPD may well be the upgrade for you moreover they utilize less power whereas rj45 the longer it goes the more apparent need and it will consume more power needs more power for those connections something again SFP mic gets around completely Center to fiber we move that across there now SSP this is where things get a little bit complex and probably one of the main reasons that it's more of an industrial connection because SSP is designed to cover so much more distance than rj45 rj45 is designed to cover lien inside the building SS FP is designed to cover a small town now there are two kinds of cables as William instance you've got three major and pre transceiver enabled cables and again you can't really get these cables much higher than five to ten meters and I think even ten meters is pushing it and these arrived with an SSP already enabled and clip to the top likewise you wanna go larger this is a 30 meter SSP also a fiber cable from with this is get this bad boy out this doesn't arrive with the transceivers on top this arrives with the fiber connector there a fiber connector which you will need to buy a separate transceiver to go into so if we pop that out of there and voila you're done and again we won't push that all the way this this is weird clip that's a nightmare to get out there but that's effectively the point you connect it into the SSP and then this goes inside your host machine your host now as the main switch the server it plugs into there so you will need one at either end and remember you will have to pay extra for these if you want to go to lengths higher than five to ten meters so once you've got that connected of course you're going to want to upgrade your nails and your machines with that SSP connectors they don't already have it so this is the cue single port upgrade part is to get a parent for planning and handling once again if you buy one of these whether it's for their host machine or your now's two things 1 remember remember remember to check that the device this goes into can supply enough power into the car and therefore into the transceiver to ensure that they work if there's not enough power the setups not going to work but without me touching too much of this card this goes inside the QNAP the serology whatever or the host PCs and that goes straight into their wallet so what you've got there is a three piece set up of a long cable the SSP and the connector but of course if you're covering smaller distances you can use the pre fitted cable now the advantages and disadvantages of probably quite clear to throw the way I've already said it is turn back from on notice there you go and we go to once you go into longer distances there is a significantly lower cost with sse that the smaller the distance then this comes into place so it all comes in to how much ground do you want to cover because the larger the greater go out larger the distance and the more important your speeds become the lowering cost this becomes because they need to get more catches more parts and this will just work out more expensive so remember if you'll cover a small installation rj45 is probably the one for you but the bigger the installation ssp all the way and remember that if you do have an existing rj45 1gb set up in your home or office and you're upgrading it will definitely cost you more to start playing with stuff like this so again but definitely something to bear in mind up one remember we haven't even talked about the switch you need to buy because generally you're going to get yourself a switch that has both SFP and rj45 so don't worry too much about that when you buy your 10 gb switch because you can find some good ones that fight that factor into both connections they're generally more rj45 in SFP ports and remember you will still still need to get a transceiver or a cable with a pre-tested 20 that there are different 20 available as well I'll talk about the later the latency on SFP cables is so much lower it's ridiculously this the speed and also you don't lose any latency over distance something that you suffer with rj45 alongside that as I've already mentioned SSD utilizes less power and therefore you produces less heat whereas rj45 utility utilizes more power and does generate more heat throughout which can of course potentially damaged cables and of course cost you more to run anyway and again there's nothing stopping you utilizing both of these so for a local connection utilize a premade cable there's a long distance connection rang through walls you know down the corridor whatever that's when this can come into play so those connections you one could argue the bigger the installation the more you go for SSDs a small installation or likely you are to go for SSP because in a in that circumstance not only because upgrading from it from the existing setup is more cost-effective but also because it's just easier and more familiar to you now another fact is actually really put into this video is of the two rj45 the market wise is winning it's more approachable its lower cost by around twenty to thirty percent at the beginning of start-up costs and of course the bigger and 1u goes in that's when that disparity disappears from moreover most industries and brands seem to be moving more and more towards this a kind of there's their SSP solutions out there to cater to existing check ups but more and more newer devices are earning towards rj45 because for an industry standard uniformity and backwards compatibility is always attractive look at the new Synology B and D s eighteen seventeen nonplussed that arrives at 10 GbE rj45 four if you go to that mat it can it require getting to price if you go to that met all you need now is the switch in your office which you're going to need anyway sports 10 GB 8 and the card for your host machine or as mentioned in one of my other videos you can connect the Synology directly to your machine point-to-point tend to you be without the switch and you will get from some fantastic speeds and a direct attached storage like capability I've got a video with the speeds on that one by a black magic I do recommend you check that out but otherwise I hope you found this video helpful if you've got any questions or maybe I made a few errors it is a tough enough subject it is and break it down in this way then do pop it down there in the comments if you're looking to upgrade your setup to 10 GbE B rj45 or SSD then visit the guys at Spain combine a clickable 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Length: 14min 38sec (878 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 05 2017