[187400] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Equipment Supporting 2.5gbps and 5gbps
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Buxey)
Thu Jan 28 14:26:47 2016
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From: Alan Buxey <A.L.M.Buxey@lboro.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 19:25:18 +0000
To: Randy Carpenter <rcarpen@network1.net>, Josh Reynolds
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Um. You don't have an option for old copper plants. This stuff gives you 2.5gig or 5gig on cat5/cat5e (depending on distance).
If you can do 10g you really shouldn't be carrying about this stuff. In the optical world just jump to using 10Gig (where you can)
alan
