[77917] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 3rd Party Cisco CWDM GBICs?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arnold Nipper)
Mon Feb 14 17:34:04 2005
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 23:33:20 +0100
From: Arnold Nipper <arnold@nipper.de>
To: Aaron Thomas <athomas@deltacable.com>
Cc: 'nanog list' <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <B0484763681@yoda.dccnet.com>
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On 14.02.2005 20:52 Aaron Thomas wrote
> Hi List,
>
> Cisco currently provides 8 lambdas for CWDM and we have a 10 lambda
> mux/de-mux system we want to make use of over a single fibre (5 data
> channels). The 1430 and 1450nm lambdas are dark and I was wondering if
> there are any 3rd party vendors out there that have produced Cisco
> compatible GBICs for these wavelengths. I have looked around and seen
> Finisar does make Cisco GBICs, but not in the 1430/1450 lambdas.
>
Have a look at Optoway
(http://www.optoway.com.tw/html/products/CWDM_GE.htm) I did not yet test
their CWDM GBICs but I'm about to use their BiDI GBICs which come with
great distance granularity and excellent price.
Arnold
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