Re: CWDM equipment (current favorites) (fwd)

2006-11-03 Thread Deepak Jain
As there's no specification for 2.5 gigabit ethernet (that I'm aware of), and SONET gear with pluggable optics is likely out of your league, I'm afraid that's a decision you'll have to make. :-) There are plenty affordable[1] options available 1U for switches with 10GE uplink ports. I've had

Re: CWDM equipment (current favorites) (fwd)

2006-11-02 Thread Adam Rothschild
On 2006-11-02-19:16:36, Deepak Jain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 10G is fine, but a coarse step price-wise. (boxes that are 1U that > uplink 10G often have >10G of input traffic possible). I like being > able to plug optics in as we need more upink. If its not feasible, > well then. :) As there's

Re: CWDM equipment (current favorites) (fwd)

2006-11-02 Thread Deepak Jain
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, Deepak Jain wrote: 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? 2.5G are o

Re: CWDM equipment (current favorites) (fwd)

2006-11-02 Thread alex
On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, Deepak Jain wrote: > >> 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? > > 2.5G are only sli

Re: CWDM equipment (current favorites) (fwd)

2006-11-02 Thread Deepak Jain
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? 2.5G are only slightly more expensive than 1G - if you have OC48 gear that is

Re: CWDM equipment (current favorites) (fwd)

2006-10-31 Thread alex
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Deepak Jain wrote: > 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. There's been some discussions more recently, such as (coauthored by yours truly): http://ww