[73549] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: optics pricing (Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michel Py)
Sat Aug 28 14:44:34 2004
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 11:43:55 -0700
From: "Michel Py" <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>
To: "Deepak Jain" <deepak@ai.net>
Cc: "Mikael Abrahamsson" <swmike@swm.pp.se>, <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Deepak Jain wrote:
> One could argue that this public & private chaffing is what
> precipitates the competition that alleviates the condition.
> If another vendor doesn't realize there is demand...
Indeed; I'll even give an idea for free:
4 port OC192 IR $1030k
4 port OC192 VSR - $330k
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=3D $700k
Someone cares to manufacture a 4-port VSR <-> IR converter for less than
$700k list? or a VSR <-> LR for less than $1M?
Michel.
