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Designed to handle demanding enterprise and service provider workloads, it provides wire-speed performance with flexible optical or copper SFP+ transceivers, enabling both short- and long-range connectivity. Each port supports 10 Gbps throughput, making the module ideal for high-capacity uplinks, aggregation layers, or data center interconnects where large volumes of traffic must be moved with low latency and reliability. 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