Active is what I'm thinking .. -----Original Message----- From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Justin Wilson Sent: August 14, 2016 10:52 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] DWDM Gear
Are you looking for active or passive? We just replaced a failing Ciena Mux with an 18 channel passive mux for a data center client. Ours was CWDM, but they make a DWDM version. Total cost was under 5 grand, including spares. Ciena wanted 24k to update the service contract, update software, and troubleshoot an alarm state. Justin Wilson j...@mtin.net --- http://www.mtin.net Owner/CEO xISP Solutions- Consulting – Data Centers - Bandwidth http://www.midwest-ix.com COO/Chairman Internet Exchange - Peering - Distributed Fabric > On Aug 14, 2016, at 10:41 AM, Chuck McCown <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: > > I have always used Cyan. > > -----Original Message----- From: Paul Stewart > Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2016 7:30 AM > To: Animal Farm > Subject: [AFMUG] DWDM Gear > > For those folks doing DWDM on fiber, whats your preferred equipment and why? > > We currently use BTI equipment which works extremely well but it’s priced in > the same ballpark as Ciena, Nortel, Cisco etc … quite expensive to deploy. > Hoping to find something more economical but just as reliable? By reliable I > mean that it’s deployed for years without having to do anything service > impacting to it. For this particular deployment I’m thinking of, ROADM isn’t > important neither. Prefer active solution vs passive. CWDM would even be > ok at this point to consider … > > Basically looking at ways to cut down on 10G fibers between two physical > locations (the fiber is leased) > > thanks, > Paul >