[60428] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Gigabit Media Converter
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen J. Wilcox)
Tue Aug 12 08:35:15 2003
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 13:34:37 +0100 (BST)
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0308121319180.26311-100000@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Ahh sorry I didnt realise the intention was to run the CWDM itself thro it, I
thought this was for the output
Ok well I'm not an optics expert but I wasnt aware multimode was capable of
carrying more than a single wavelength because of interference/dispersion
effects etc
Steve
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
>
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
>
> > Sounds like you need a singlemode-multimode convertor, available from various
> > places, cost around $600
>
> Highly unlikely that it'll do CWDM, at least at that price.
>
> Transmode (www.transmode.se) does converters to order, they'll fix things
> that'll do pretty much any to any (850 / 1310 / (1490-1610) in any
> combination) including 3R and management (which implies that you need
> ethernet onsite which might be tricky).
>
> I'd believe they're more in the $3k-$5k range with CWDM optics though. If
> you need OC48 that'll hike the price up even more.
>
>
