[77930] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 3rd Party Cisco CWDM GBICs?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott McGrath)
Tue Feb 15 08:56:35 2005
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 08:57:18 -0500
To: Arnold Nipper <arnold@nipper.de>,
Aaron Thomas <athomas@deltacable.com>
From: Scott McGrath <mcgrath@fas.harvard.edu>
Cc: "'nanog list'" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <42112730.6090300@nipper.de>
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Look into Finisar.
I believe Finisar is the OEM for the Cisco CWDM GBIC's as they look
identical (With the obvious exception of the label)
They have 16 Lambda's available
At 05:33 PM 2/14/2005, Arnold Nipper wrote:
>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
>--
>Arnold Nipper / nIPper consulting, Sandhausen, Germany
>email: arnold@nipper.de
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