3rd Party Cisco CWDM GBICs?

Mon Feb 14 22:33:20 UTC 2005

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
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