[193531] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DWDM Optics cheaper than CWDM Optics?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Colton Conor)
Tue Jan 31 13:21:25 2017
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From: Colton Conor <colton.conor@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 12:21:22 -0600
To: Karl Gerhard <karl_gerh@gmx.at>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Just so you know, FS.com now stocks many of the common optics in Seattle
Washington for next day delivery. So they now are stocking more and more
items in the USA.
When we order an item from China on Monday USA time, we get it it Thursday
morning USA time if its in stock in China!
On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 9:17 AM, Karl Gerhard <karl_gerh@gmx.at> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> fs.com offers DWDM optics that are cheaper than CWDM optics:
> CWDM 80km 10G for 600$ http://www.fs.com/c/cisco-cwdm
> -sfp-plus-2425?70-80km
> DWDM 80km 10G for 420$ http://www.fs.com/c/cisco-dwdm
> -sfp-plus-2485?70-80km
>
> This is significant.
> Is this for real? Has anybody bought their DWDM optics?
>
> Going with DWDM and passive Mux/Demux seems to be cheaper nowadays than
> going with CWDM.
>
> Regards
> Karl
>
