Re: 3rd Party Cisco CWDM GBICs?
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone/mobile: +49 172 2650958 fax: +49 6224 9259 333
RE: 3rd Party Cisco CWDM GBICs?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Be aware that on most types of fiber the loss in the 1400nm range is so high (due to H2O in the glass) that it is unusable. Some manufacturers are now using a process that extracts all, or nearly all, of the H2O out of the glass to make that range useable. OFS Allwave claims to be doing that. Regards, Chad - Chad E Skidmore One Eighty Networks, Inc. http://www.go180.net 509-688-8180 -Original Message- From: Aaron Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Posted At: Monday, February 14, 2005 11:53 AM Posted To: NANOG Conversation: 3rd Party Cisco CWDM GBICs? Subject: 3rd Party Cisco CWDM GBICs? 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. Any help appreciated Aaron -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 8.1 iQA/AwUBQhIj0U2RUJ5udBnvEQJhFgCeM60pB1kU+gx++3GSxV31kmUUjaYAnjil NC9PdWqfsCva35VMghMVOPiw =kRiR -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: 3rd Party Cisco CWDM GBICs?
From: Aaron Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:52:46 -0800 To: 'nanog list' nanog@merit.edu Subject: 3rd Party Cisco CWDM GBICs? 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. Any help appreciated Aaron You might want to try MRV Communications, www.mrv.com. I think they also make units for Cisco. Mike
Re: 3rd Party Cisco CWDM GBICs?
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone/mobile: +49 172 2650958 fax: +49 6224 9259 333
