[101074] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IEEE 40GE & 100GE
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Dec 13 17:53:11 2007
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
To: "Stephen Sprunk" <stephen@sprunk.org>
In-Reply-To: <027401c83dd5$542972b0$3b3816ac@atlanta.polycom.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:50:34 -0800
Cc: "Chris Cole" <chris.cole@finisar.com>,
"Mikael Abrahamsson" <swmike@swm.pp.se>,
"North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes" <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
So, assuming this translates roughly to optics being:
$1,000 4km
$1,300 10km
$2,600 40km
You'd rather have to pay $2,600 for all your campus links than
$1,300 for all your LAN links?
My preference would be quite different. I'd much rather pay $1,300 for
the LAN links than $2,600 for the Campus links.
Owen
On Dec 13, 2007, at 1:51 PM, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
>
> Thus spake "Chris Cole" <chris.cole@finisar.com>
>> The 40km/10km cost ratio is between 1.6x and 2x, depending on
>> the source.
>>
>> The 10km/4km cost ratio is between 1.15x and 1.3x, again
>> depending on the source.
>
> If those numbers translate into prices (not costs), then I'd prefer
> to see 40km and 4km optics, with no 10km optics. The important
> point is that the 40km optics neet to be able to handle 4.1km links
> with no attenuators, preferably without any human tuning at all.
> You only pay the extra capital cost once (if there even is any, due
> to more volume of fewer parts), but you pay labor and sparing over
> and over.
>
> S
>
> Stephen Sprunk "God does not play dice." --Albert Einstein
> CCIE #3723 "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the
> K5SSS dice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen Hawking
