[58282] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Good (cheap) 2000Mb/s solution?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter E. Fry)
Tue May 6 17:56:19 2003
Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 16:55:40 -0500
From: "Peter E. Fry" <pfry@swbell.net>
To: Simon Lockhart <simonl@rd.bbc.co.uk>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Simon Lockhart wrote:
> 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.
Cool, so long as your splitter actually handles 1000BASE-SX (850nm)...
launched into multimode...? Hmm. Does that fly? 1000BASE-LX is
1310nm, and some proprietary LR stuff goes into the 1500s. Those GBICs
ain't so cheap as SX, but hey.
Or maybe you're thinking of 10GBASE-Ex? (Ow! My wallet!)
Peter E. Fry
