[171320] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Pluggable Coherent DWDM 10Gig
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Sat Apr 26 02:02:30 2014
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 08:02:12 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: Julien Goodwin <nanog@studio442.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <535B3B92.7040106@studio442.com.au>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sat, 26 Apr 2014, Julien Goodwin wrote:
> But you'd never send it all the waves anyway, that's far too much loss
> across the band.
Please elaborate.
> ROADMs already solve this problem, and are available at the module level
> (how practically available and usable I've no idea, never needed to try).
Compare the price of a ROADM and a 50%/50% light splitter. Which one do
you think is the cheapest and also operationally most reliable?
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
