[58278] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Good (cheap) 2000Mb/s solution?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard A Steenbergen)
Tue May 6 17:12:44 2003
Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 17:09:37 -0400
From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
To: Simon Lockhart <simonl@rd.bbc.co.uk>
Cc: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>, "Nanog@Merit. Edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20030506205952.GA5354@rd.bbc.co.uk>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 09:59:52PM +0100, Simon Lockhart wrote:
>
> On Tue May 06, 2003 at 04:56:35PM -0400, Deepak Jain wrote:
> > I need a good, cheap (its temporary) solution to run 2000mb/s over a single
> > pair of multimode fiber (SX handoffs). I'd ideally like to put in two GEs,
> > and get two out. I could use 10G gear, or OC48 gear, but I was hoping for
> > something less pricey since this only has two run about 200ft between two
> > buildings.
> >
> > Any suggestions? I will be glad to summarize for anyone who wants it.
>
> I've heard of people who use a pair of SX gbics (1310nm), and a pair of LX
> gbics (1550nm), and a cheap WDM splitter to get two GigE's down one pair
> of fiber.
Good idea, I'm gonna try that... :)
For scaling past that, Cisco makes CWDM GBICs that operate in existing
gear, where you can get 8 wavelengths and run them over a WDM splitter.
Alas no one that I know of makes a simple cheap 1U box that does 8xGigE
in and 1 fiber pair out.
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