[101076] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: IEEE 40GE & 100GE
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Cole)
Thu Dec 13 18:54:56 2007
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:51:01 -0800
In-Reply-To: <A45ADD7D-D51E-4301-B885-E7FB10B82C00@delong.com>
From: "Chris Cole" <chris.cole@finisar.com>
To: "Owen DeLong" <owen@delong.com>, "Stephen Sprunk" <stephen@sprunk.org>
Cc: "Mikael Abrahamsson" <swmike@swm.pp.se>,
"North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes" <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Owen,
You are an optimist. Initially, the pricing will be more then an order
of magnitude higher. :)
Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: Owen DeLong [mailto:owen@delong.com]=20
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 2:51 PM
To: Stephen Sprunk
Cc: Chris Cole; Mikael Abrahamsson; North American Noise and Off-topic
Gripes
Subject: Re: IEEE 40GE & 100GE
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 =20
> to see 40km and 4km optics, with no 10km optics. The important =20
> point is that the 40km optics neet to be able to handle 4.1km links =20
> with no attenuators, preferably without any human tuning at all. =20
> You only pay the extra capital cost once (if there even is any, due =20
> to more volume of fewer parts), but you pay labor and sparing over =20
> 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
