[73750] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: optics pricing (Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott McGrath)
Thu Sep 2 10:54:27 2004
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 10:49:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: Scott McGrath <mcgrath@fas.harvard.edu>
To: Thomas Kernen <tkernen@deckpoint.ch>
Cc: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>,
"Dickson, Brian" <BDickson@arbinet.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <04e201c490ca$0475f790$2215fe0a@WOLFORD>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Ordered them when they first became available order is still on "New
Product Hold".
BTW they use standard infiniband cables
Scott C. McGrath
On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Thomas Kernen wrote:
>
> >
> > > On the other hand, it'd be nice to see a copper 10GBIC, even if its max
> > > cable length were a few metres. ;-)
> >
> > There is one. It's called CX4 and has a reach of 15 meters. Cisco sold it
> > for $600 list price at first but it has now disappeared from the price
> > list. I don't know why.
> >
> >
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/modules/ps4835/products_data_sheet09186a008007cd00.html
> >
>
> According to my info sources (I tried to purchase some a couple of weeks
> ago) they have not yet been released (= delayed) and that's why they have
> been removed from the GPL... should be back within a month (hopefully).
>
> I'm trying to get my sticky fingers on a few for testing in our lab... the
> other problem is finding people that actually stock the CX4 patch cables.
>
> Thomas
>
