3rd Party Cisco CWDM GBICs?

Mon Feb 14 20:15:30 UTC 2005

> From: Aaron Thomas <athomas at deltacable.com>
> Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:52:46 -0800
> To: 'nanog list' <nanog at 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