[177879] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Low cost WDM gear
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Hammett)
Sat Feb 7 14:35:32 2015
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Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2015 13:34:29 -0600 (CST)
From: Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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Oh, I had no fantasies that the $500 Chinese muxes would do the distance. Actually quite the opposite in that I knew they couldn't, so looking for alternative solutions that didn't break the bank.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Tinka" <mark.tinka@seacom.mu>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Sent: Saturday, February 7, 2015 1:26:28 PM
Subject: Re: Low cost WDM gear
On 7/Feb/15 21:17, Phil Bedard wrote:
> Is this for 10G? I'm kind of assuming 10G. What kind of equipment is
> being plugged into these? 300km is way beyond what you'll get with a
> passive solution, it's definitely in the "long-haul" terrtory. If you are
> launching out of a router the best pluggable optic you can generally get
> is rated at 80km, 10GBase-ZR, but even a passive mux at each end shaves
> some of that distance off.
>
> 300km is going to require amplifiers at intervals across the span. Who is
> providing the fiber? I'd start talking to traditional transport vendors.
> Ekinops as mentioned is probably decent at a lower price, Adva works well
> and isn't all that expensive, even Cisco has gear reasonably priced. If
> you want to cover 300km on a fiber span though "cheap" isn't really a word
> I would describe. It's why people lease circuits. :)
Agree - US$500 (or thereabout) to cover 300km at a reasonable speed with
some reliability and manageability is a stretch (no pun intended).
Mark.
