[120226] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Optical fiber question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Moyle-Croft)
Sat Dec 12 05:14:39 2009
From: Matthew Moyle-Croft <mmc@internode.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <F7FB36F5-73DC-4578-89AE-FFB2AC7787F7@puck.nether.net>
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:43:28 +1030
To: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 11/12/2009, at 4:58 AM, Jared Mauch wrote:
> You can reach much further on this, but the optics tend to be more =
expensive. If you are going a short distance (eg: 2km or less) =
multi-mode is the way. =20
I can buy LH GigE SFPs for AU$67 each, MM GigE SFPs for AU$61. AU$6 =
difference is really noise.
Bring on Vendor equipment with SFP+ optic support for 10G - AU$1199 for =
10G-LR SFP+!
($AU =3D Australian Dollar which is about US 91c)
MMC
--=20
Matthew Moyle-Croft
Peering Manager and Team Lead - Commercial and DSLAMs
Internode /Agile
