OT: Looking for Ethernt/Optical Device

Tue Jun 1 16:00:33 UTC 2004

Finisar also has CWDM optics in both the SFP and GBIC form factor and they
are quite a bit less expensive than the Cisco solution and they do have a
16 lambda passive OADM as well as the 4 and 8 lambda models.

                            Scott C. McGrath

On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Erik Haagsman wrote:

>
> What you could try is use the Cisco CWDM-MUX-4 and it's pluggable optics
> that can be fit into any GBIC 802.3z compliant slot. It's just an OADM
> with 4 or 8 wavelengths that delivers GigE to any box with pluggable
> GBICs provided you use the right optics and it's quite a bit cheaper
> than using ONS stuff. That said, CWDM doesn't get you much further than
> 80 kilometres, above that DWDM is your only option, and a hell of a lot
> more expensive.
>
> Cheers,
>
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> On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 17:30, Michael Smith wrote:
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> > Hello All:
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> > I'm wondering if anyone has seen a good and cheap(er) solution for
> > providing multiple Gigabit Ethernet circuits over single pair of
> > fiber.  I'm looking for a way to do CWDM or DWDM that's cheaper than
> > putting in a Cisco 15454 or 15327.  I'm only going to be doing 2 GigE
> > circuits between two switches, so I don't need to plan for future
> > growth.
> >
> > If anyone knows of a magic box that will do the above I would love to
> > hear about it.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mike
> >
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> > Michael K. Smith        NoaNet
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