Price-reading methodology

Price types

Vendor list is a direct seller’s advertised catalog price for one module. Vendor sale is the seller’s displayed special price. Street offer is a reseller’s advertised price, with the reseller named. Price commentary is a filing or analyst statement about pricing direction. Condition is New for sellers listing their own catalog modules and Not stated where a reseller gives none; coding is the host coding the seller ships.

An average selling price (ASP) describes a sales basket for a reporting period. No dollar ASP is inferred from revenue, shipment forecasts, margin changes or catalog prices. Earnings and analyst observations are shown on the market page, outside the purchasable-price table and price ladder.

Dates and provenance

The initial capture was read on 2026-11-11. `observed_on` dates our reading. `period` records what a filing or report describes. `verifiedAt` dates the evidence check and drives record sitemap lastmod. A report keeps the period it describes, whenever we read it.

Every non-null field maps to a source URL and access date in the JSON. Catalog cards support their own displayed SKU, package, reach and price. Product links identify the item; the source marker points to the catalog when that is where the evidence was read. Sources are public pages or publicly rendered research summaries; gated tables and AI summaries are excluded.

Currencies, units and the price ladder

USD and CNY amounts have separate numeric columns. We apply no exchange rate, tax adjustment or regional uplift. A blank currency cell means this source did not supply a price in that currency. Reach is normalized to metres; aggregate nominal speed is in Gbps, with 1.6T displayed as a speed group.

The home ladder holds reach and package fixed: each rung is 500 m optics in the OSFP family (OSFP at 400G and 800G, OSFP224 at 1.6T), USD vendor-list prices only, lowest to highest. Every endpoint opens its reading. Each speed hub adds a like-for-like table: one speed, one package, one reach and one currency per row. Sale and street offers stay in the table under their own labels.

Variants and scope

One distinct published product ID, optical variant and date makes one reading. Coding menus do not create more rows. Twin-port speed is aggregate. Flat-top, finned, LPO, OSFP224 and OSFP-XD variants remain distinct when identified. The source’s title supplies reach if an old URL slug disagrees. Where a source lists multiple fiber-grade reaches, the highest explicitly stated reach is used and the source retains the conditions.

FS mainland prices stay in CNY because that catalog was readable; its international pages presented a robot check. FiberMall prices come from its catalog cards, not the editorial material below them. Optcore prices explicitly exclude VAT. SFPCables sale readings retain the special price. Branded 4G LTE Mall offers establish the reseller’s price only.

Coverage and omissions

The manufacturer coverage table includes InnoLight, Eoptolink, Coherent, Lumentum, Accelink, Cisco and NVIDIA references. A product without public price evidence does not acquire a synthetic price. Unmapped configurable family ranges, inaccessible price pages, used listings, DAC/AOC cables and gated analyst estimates are omitted. The ledger records public prices you can open and quote.

Quotes and corrections

The seller page holds the final terms. Send the exact host, firmware, optical interface, fiber, quantity and destination when you ask for a quote. Email hello@transceiverprices.com with a public source to correct a reading, or use the quote form on any reading page.

Reuse and sponsorship

The compilation is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0. Credit Transceiver Prices and preserve original source links and dates. Vendor documents, trademarks and source prose retain their own rights. Paid placement is labelled and does not change data or sort order.