According to CIR (CommunicationsIndustryResearchers) latest report, "2015 Active Optical Cable Market: data centers and high-performance computing market," in 2020 for the data center of the active optical cable (AOC) market will reach $ 4.2 billion.

QSFP is from a simple single-mode fiber SONET applications out into other multimode fiber applications, such as Gbps Ethernet, Fibre Channel, InfiniBand and so on. Many MSA members of the supply VCSEL chip, parallel VCSEL chips, pushing the QSFP technology in the field of multi-mode.