Talk:Gigabit interface converter

This article reads like a promotional piece
GBIC may make sense if a load of different fiber interfaces are needed or for the fiber uplinks on a mainly copper switch. But this article implies that using it for copper links is a sane idea which i'm pretty sure is BS. Plugwash 01:50, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Does it? With what text? Copper gbics are not amazingly common, because so much had moved to SFP by the time 1000-TX was a baked standard. Pluggable optics make sense anywhere you have optics.. Pluggable copper doesn't make much sense when you're going for lots of copper ports, and I don't see how the article implies otherwise. --Gmaxwell 02:00, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

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Does this mean that I can use any brand GBIC device in GBIC compatible switches eg. D-link GBIC multi-mode device in a HP Switch? Or have I read this wrong?

Which is the transmit and which is the receive port? I believe the RX port is on the left? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.246.146.251 (talk) 01:51, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

If you take a front on picture of a plugged in GBIC; with a digital camera, you'll see the transmit port indicated by a white dot as the IR radiation saturates the camera sensor.