3rd Party Cisco CWDM GBICs?

Tue Feb 15 13:57:18 UTC 2005

Look into Finisar.

I believe Finisar is the OEM for the Cisco CWDM GBIC's as they look 
identical (With the obvious exception of the label)

They have 16 Lambda's available

At 05:33 PM 2/14/2005, Arnold Nipper wrote:

>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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