On 22 February 2013 10:14, Wood, Peter (ISS) <p.w...@lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
> I’m sat re-architecting our mirroring capability and we’re looking to > push it up to 10Gbs.**** > > ** ** > > I’m after a media converter (two I guess, one for each direction) that’d > be suitable to take the output of a MM fibre tap and convert it to SM (LAN > Phy LR) to transmit to our primary data centre (where our monitoring and > IDP equipment is based).**** > > ** ** > > Anyone got an recommendations of such that are known to work? I don’t know > enough about the signalling layer of 10Gb to know if it’s even a going > concern with only one direction of light flowing through it.**** > > ** > You'd probably be best with a cheap switch with 2x 10G on it.. see what you can find on ebay. Just install one SR and one LR optic and pass everything through transparently. Technically you ought to do it at Layer1 with transponders but the switch is likely cheaper and easier... Steve > ** > > Cheers,**** > > ** ** > > Peter.**** > > ** ** > > ** ** >
