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The QSFP-100G-AOC10M is a 100 Gigabit active optical cable, 10 m long, with a QSFP28 connector at each end and multimode fibre carrying four 25G lanes between them. Both connector ends use the same housing style, so the cable has no preferred direction when installed. The cable is a single sealed assembly, supplied as the spare part number with the equals suffix. Seat each plug until it latches, then give the cable a gentle tug to confirm the pull-tab latch has engaged. It suits end-of-row and adjacent-rack layouts where the route is longer than the straight-line distance between the two ports. Plan the route before ordering, because a fixed-length cable cannot be shortened or extended later. Cisco's 100GBASE QSFP-100G data sheet lists it in the active optical cable table. The slim, flexible fibre jacket is easier to route than 100G copper and keeps working at distances where passive copper runs out. The optics are sealed into the connector bodies, so there is no MPO fibre to clean and no module pairing to manage.