[93192] in North American Network Operators' Group
CWDM equipment (current favorites)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Mon Oct 30 15:35:09 2006
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:33:27 -0500
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
Reply-To: deepak@ai.net
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
A few years ago, NANOG had a discussion regarding various CWDM vendors.
Repeatedly MRV was brought up as a good option for metro-area LAN type
applications.
Since then, I have actually touched some of the MRV product line
personally and found it (and their customer support)... less than ideal.
(not comparing to anyone else, and no one is really ideal).
The bigger problem was that the devices seem to be less than intuitive,
but rock solid once they are working. (which is what everyone praised
them for).
We need to place a new order for some new fiber builds and were
considering some other vendors. Especially in the nx2.5G and nx10G (are
CWDM x-cievers even available in 10G yet?) range. Anyone have any new
favorites?
I'll be glad to summarize/commiserate. :)
Thanks in advance,
DJ