[189120] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Patch panel solutions for 4x10GE breakout
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Shawn Morris)
Thu May 5 18:51:58 2016
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In-Reply-To: <12672D4F-3AC1-4D89-A2A1-19AFD7D924F3@puck.nether.net>
Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 09:59:34 -0500
From: Shawn Morris <shawn@smorris.com>
To: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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It's the Corning Edge8 line [
https://www.corning.com/worldwide/en/products/communication-networks/applic=
ations/data-center/edge8.html
]
On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 9:45 AM, Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net> wrote:
> There is a nice Corning panel our facilities team is using now. I can fin=
d
> the link and send it to the list when not at my phone.
>
> Jared Mauch
>
> > On May 5, 2016, at 10:28 AM, Phil Bedard <bedard.phil@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > So the newer equipment we are looking at uses QSFP+/MTP with 4x10GE
> breakouts to deliver 10G. We are not wiring these up to things in the sa=
me
> rack, they will be going to patch panels and then elsewhere in a facility=
.
> It could potentially get messy with the panels we have today so we are
> looking at other solutions. These are all SM LR connections using LC.
> There are a lot of SM MTP to LC options since that=E2=80=99s the way most=
panels
> are wired, but they typically have 6 duplex LC connectors per MTP and not=
4
> which isn=E2=80=99t very efficient in this use case. I=E2=80=99ve seen o=
thers just use an
> intermediate LC to LC panel and just wire the breakouts to those and then
> jumper the other side elsewhere.
> >
> > Anything else others have used? The point of the solution is to keep
> the wiring mess in front of or near the device to a minimum.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Phil
> >
>
>
