1G --- MM $6/ea SM $7/ea
10G --- MM $18/ea SM $24/ea DAC $9.50-$18/pair (length dependent) 25G --- MM $39/ea SM $59/ea DAC $23-$51/pair (length dependent) Not a significant price difference from SM to MM, but DAC is even cheaper. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Coy Hile" <coy.h...@coyhile.com> To: "Randy Bush" <ra...@psg.com> Cc: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 10:19:37 AM Subject: Re: Hi-Rise Building Fiber Suggestions On 2020-02-26 11:14, Randy Bush wrote: >> We use plenty of multi-mode, but only in the data centre, between our >> own kit, for racks within the same cage. > > so you have to stock both single and multi? hmmm > > randy I'd expect that from the ToR -> Servers would be MMF, but that other infrastructure cabling would be SMF. Even using aftermarket optics, putting single-mode transceivers in every server and access port would quickly become cost-prohibitive, would it not? -- Coy Hile coy.h...@coyhile.com