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The HPE 10Gb SFP+ Transceivers deliver high‑performance, reliable 10GbE connectivity designed to meet diverse workload needs, providing an optimal balance of performance, value, and availability across HPE platforms.
HPE 10Gb SFP+ Transceivers offer dependable optical connectivity for HPE systems, featuring expert‑recommended options that integrate seamlessly with HPE BladeSystem and other infrastructures to support a range of data center workloads efficiently.
Overview
Models | |
| Recommended These transceivers are recommended options that have been selected by HPE experts to provide the right technology for a range of workloads and market segments offering the best combination of performance, value and availability. | |
| HPE BladeSystem c-Class 10Gb SFP+ SR Transceiver | 455883-B21 |
| HPE BladeSystem c-Class 10Gb SFP+ LR Transceiver | 455886-B21 |
Service and Support
HPE Services
No matter where you are in your digital transformation journey, you can count on HPE Services to deliver the expertise you need when, where and how you need it. From planning to deployment, ongoing operations and beyond, our experts can help you realize your digital ambitions.
Consulting Services
No matter where you are in your journey to hybrid cloud, experts can help you map out your next steps. From determining what workloads should live where, to handling governance and compliance, to managing costs, our experts can help you optimize your operations.
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HPE Managed Services
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Operational Services
Optimize your entire IT environment and drive innovation. Manage day-to-day IT operational tasks while freeing up valuable time and resources. Meet service-level targets and business objectives with features designed to drive better business outcomes.
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HPE Complete Care Service
HPE Complete Care Service is a modular, edge-to-cloud IT environment service designed to help optimize your entire IT environment and achieve agreed upon IT outcomes and business goals through a personalized experience. All delivered by an assigned team of HPE Services experts. HPE Complete Care Service provides:
- − A complete coverage approach – edge to cloud
- − An assigned HPE team
- − Modular and fully personalized engagement
- − Enhanced Incident Management experience with priority access
- − Digitally enabled and AI-driven customer experience
HPE Tech Care Service
HPE Tech Care Service is the operational support service experience for HPE products. The service goes beyond traditional support by providing access to product specific experts, an AI-driven digital experience, and general technical guidance to not only reduce risk but constantly search for ways to do things better. HPE Tech Care Service delivers a customer-centric, AI-driven, and digitally enabled customer experience to move your business forward. HPE Tech Care Service is available in three response levels. Basic, which provides 9x5 business hour availability and a 2-hour response time. Essential which provides a 15-minute response time 24x7 for most enterprise level customers, and Critical which includes a 6-hour repair commitment where available and outage management response for severity 1 incidents.
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HPE Lifecycle Services
HPE Lifecycle Services provide a variety of options to help maintain your HPE systems and solutions at all stages of the product lifecycle. A few popular examples include:
- − Lifecycle Install and Startup Services: Various levels for physical installation and power on, remote access setup, installation and startup, and enhanced installation services with the operating system.
- − HPE Firmware Update Analysis Service: Recommendations for firmware revision levels for selected HPE products, taking into account the relevant revision dependencies within your IT environment.
- − HPE Firmware Update Implementation Service: Implementation of firmware updates for selected HPE server, storage, and solution products, taking into account the relevant revision dependencies within your IT environment.
- − Implementation assistance services: Highly trained technical service specialists to assist you with a variety of activities, ranging from design, implementation, and platform deployment to consolidation, migration, project management, and onsite technical forums.
- − HPE Service Credits: Access to prepaid services for flexibility to choose from a variety of specialized service activities, including assessments, performance maintenance reviews, firmware management, professional services, and operational best practices.
Notes: To review the list of Lifecycle Services available for your product go to: https://www.hpe.com/services/lifecycle
For a list of the most frequently purchased services using service credits, see the HPE Service Credits Menu
Other Related Services from HPE Services:
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Defective Media Retention
An option available with HPE Complete Care Service and HPE Tech Care Service and applies only to Disk or eligible SSD/Flash Drives replaced by HPE due to malfunction.
Consult your HPE Sales Representative or Authorized Channel Partner of choice for any additional questions and services options.
Parts and Materials
HPE will provide HPE-supported replacement parts and materials necessary to maintain the covered hardware product in operating condition, including parts and materials for available and recommended engineering improvements.
Parts and components that have reached their maximum supported lifetime and/or the maximum usage limitations as set forth in the manufacturer's operating manual, product quick-specs, or the technical product data sheet will not be provided, repaired, or replaced as part of these services.
How to Purchase Services
Services are sold by Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Authorized Service Partners:
- − Services for customers purchasing from HPE or an enterprise reseller are quoted using HPE order configuration tools.
- − Customers purchasing from a commercial reseller can find services at https://ssc.hpe.com/portal/site/ssc/
AI Powered and Digitally Enabled Support Experience
Achieve faster time to resolution with access to product-specific resources and expertise through a digital and data driven customer experience
Sign into the HPE Support Center experience, featuring streamlined self-serve case creation and management capabilities with inline knowledge recommendations. You will also find personalized task alerts and powerful troubleshooting support through an intelligent virtual agent with seamless transition when needed to a live support agent.
https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/home/signin
Consume IT On Your Terms
HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform brings the cloud experience directly to your apps and data wherever they are—the edge, colocations, or your data center. It delivers cloud services for on-premises IT infrastructure specifically tailored to your most demanding workloads. With a pay-per-use, scalable, point-and-click self-service experience that is managed for you, HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform accelerates digital transformation in a distributed, edge-to-cloud world.
- − Get faster time to market
- − Save on TCO, align costs to business
- − Scale quickly, meet unpredictable demand
- − Simplify IT operations across your data centers and clouds
To learn more about HPE Services, please contact your Hewlett Packard Enterprise sales representative or Hewlett Packard Enterprise Authorized Channel Partner. Contact information for a representative in your area can be found at "Contact HPE" https://www.hpe.com/us/en/contact-hpe.html
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Technical Specifications
| HPE BladeSystem c- Class 10Gb SFP+ SR Transceiver (455883-B21) | Notes: A 10-Gigabit transceiver in SFP+ form-factor that supports the 10-Gigabit SR standard, providing 10-Gigabit connectivity up to 300 m on multimode fiber. | ||
| Ports | 1 LC 10-GbE port (IEEE 802.3ae Type 10Gbase-SR); Duplex: full only | ||
| Connectivity | Connectivity Connector type | LC | |
| Wavelength | 850 nm | ||
| Physical characteristics | Dimensions | 2.19(d) x 0.54(w) x 0.47(h) in. (5.57 x 1.38 x 1.19 cm) | |
| Environment | Weight | 0.04 lb. (0.02 kg) | |
| Transceiver form factor | SFP+ | ||
| Operating temperature | 32°F to 158°F (0°C to 70°C) | ||
| Operating relative humidity | 0% to 85%, noncondensing | ||
| Non-operating temperature | −4°F to 185°F (−40°C to 85°C) | ||
| Altitude | Up to 10,000 ft. (3 km) | ||
| Electrical characteristics | Power consumption typical | 0.6w | |
| Power consumption Maximum | 0.8w | ||
| Cabling | Cable Type | 62.5/125 μm or 50/125 μ m (core/cladding) diameter, graded-index, low metal content, multimode fiber optic, complying with ITU-T G.651 and ISO/IEC 793-2 Type A1b or A1a, respectively. Maximum distance:
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| Cable length | 2–300 m | ||
| Fiber type | Multimode | ||
| Notes | For fiber patch cords, use Ultra Physical Contact (UPC) surface termination/polish. Angled Physical Contact (APC) is not recommended. | ||
| HPE BladeSystem c- Class 10Gb SFP+ LR Transceiver (455886-B21) | Notes: A 10-Gigabit transceiver in SFP+ form-factor that supports the 10-Gigabit LR standard, providing 10-Gigabit connectivity up to 10 km on single-mode fiber. | ||
| Ports | 1 LC 10-GbE port (IEEE 802.3aq Type 10Gbase-LR); Duplex: full only | ||
| Connectivity | Connector type | LC | |
| Wavelength | 1310 nm | ||
| Physical characteristics | Dimensions | 2.19(d) x 0.54(w) x 0.47(h) in. (5.57 x 1.38 x 1.19 cm) | |
| Environment | Weight | 0.04 lb. (.02 kg) | |
| Transceiver form factor | SFP+ | ||
| Operating temperature | 32°F to 158°F (0°C to 70°C) | ||
| Operating relative humidity | 0% to 85%, noncondensing | ||
| Non-operating/Storage temperature | −4°F to 185°F (−40°C to 85°C) | ||
| Altitude | Up to 10,000 ft. (3 km) | ||
| Electrical characteristics | Power consumption typical | 0.9 w | |
| Power consumption Maximum | 1 w | ||
| Cabling | Cable type | Low metal content, single-mode fiber-optic, complying with ITU-T G.652 and ISO/IEC 793-2 Type B1. Maximum distance:
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| Cable length | 2 m to 10 km | ||
| Fiber type | Single-mode | ||
| Notes | Conditioning patch cord cables are not supported. For fiber patch cords, use Ultra Physical Contact (UPC) surface termination/polish. Angled Physical Contact (APC) is not recommended. | ||
| Operating System and Virtualization Support | The Operating Systems supported by this adapter are based on the server OS support. Please refer to the OS Support Matrix at https://www.hpe.com/us/en/servers/server-operating-systems.html. |
| Environment-friendly Products and Approach - End-of-life Management and Recycling | Hewlett Packard Enterprise offers end-of-life product return, trade-in, and recycling programs, in many geographic areas, for our products. Products returned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise will be recycled, recovered or disposed of in a responsible manner. The EU WEEE Directive (2012/19/EU) requires manufacturers to provide treatment information for each product type for use by treatment facilities. This information (product disassembly instructions) is posted on the Hewlett Packard Enterprise web site. These instructions may be used by recyclers and other WEEE treatment facilities as well as Hewlett Packard Enterprise OEM customers who integrate and re-sell Hewlett Packard Enterprise equipment. |
Summary of Changes
| Date | Version History | Action | Description of Change |
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| 16-Feb-2026 | Changed | New branding applied to document | |
| 04-Dec-2023 | Changed | Service and Support Section was updated | |
| 15-Nov-2021 | Changed | Service and Support Section was updated | |
| 05-Feb-2018 | Changed | Overview section was updated | |
| 09-Sep-2016 | Changed | Technical Specifications section was updated | |
| 26-Aug-2016 | Created | New QuickSpecs |
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