[125450] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: CX4 to XFP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Fri Apr 16 11:49:15 2010
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:48:51 -0700
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.1004161734420.6768@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 04/16/2010 08:35 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Apr 2010, William Jobs wrote:
>
>> Has anyone else undertaken a similar setup? What were the difficulties
>> you
>> encountered especially in terms of reduced throughput, packet loss
>> etc. Any
>> recommended media converters?
>
> Why media converter? There are CX4 XFPs as far as I can google...
the cx4 interface is xaui 4x3Gb/s, as is xenpack. xfp is xfi 1 x 10Gb/s
so connecting the two requires a serdes device.
