Chelsio's SM40G-SR 40Gb/s 100m Multimode QSFP+ optical transceivers are designed and certified for use with Chelsio's 40-Gigabit Ethernet Unified Wire Adapters. The Chelsio SM40G-SR Transceiver is compatible with Chelsio's T5-based Unified Wire Adapters.

The T5 adapters support PCI Express 3.0 host bus interface, and are optimized for storage, cloud computing, HPC, virtualization and other data center applications. The fifth-generation T5 ASIC technology from Chelsio provides the highest performance while dramatically lowering host-system CPU and memory overhead with on-board hardware that offloads TCP/IP, iSCSI, FCoE and iWARP RDMA processing. As a result, the system benefits from higher bandwidth, lower latency and reduced power consumption.