Versatile Transceiver developments

SLHC experiment upgrades will make substantial use of optical links to enable high-speed data readout and control. The Versatile Link project will develop and assess optical link architectures and components suitable for deployment at SLHC. The on-detector element will be a bidirectional opto-electronic module: the Versatile Transceiver (VTRx) that will be based on a commercially available module type minimally customized to meet the constraints of the SLHC on-detector environment in terms of mass, volume, power consumption, operational temperature and radiation environment. This paper brings together the status of development of the VTRx in terms of packaging, environmental testing and functional testing.