[195053] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: PCIe adapters supporting long distance 10GB fiber?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Tue Jun 20 03:54:43 2017
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 09:54:39 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: chiel <chiel@gmx.net>
In-Reply-To: <1ad2f088-6183-0737-8d1c-f3b4d618be57@gmx.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On Thu, 15 Jun 2017, chiel wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We are deploying more and more server based routers (based on BSD). We
> have now come to the point where we need to have 10GB uplinks one these
> devices and I prefer to plug in a long range 10GB fiber straight into
> the server without it going first into a router/switch from vendor x. It
> seems to me that all the 10GB PCIe cards only support either copper
> 10GBASE-T, short range 10GBASE-SR or the 10 Km 10GBASE-LR (but only very
> few). Are there any PCIe cards that support 10GBASE-ER and 10GBASE-ZR? I
> can't seem to find any.
The Intel XF SR2 card actually has XFPs and I have LR optics in one here.
I don't see any reason it wouldn't support ER or ZR as well.
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
