Inside plant 10G fiber specs?

Michael Balasko Michael.Balasko at cityofhenderson.com
Tue Mar 16 00:13:40 UTC 2010


Bullpucky with regards to 10G optics cost. (1G we can agree on)
You can do SPF+ 10G LRM for 220M of shiny-light goodness for 280 bucks. 
LR is nearly 4 times that much. 
We find that 220 gets us to most places in the building. 

Jeff- As far as fiber goes we spec sumitomo or corning and try to stick
to LRM optics when we can. 


Michael Balasko
CCSP, MCSE
Network Specialist II
City of Henderson, Nevada
240 Water St. 
Henderson, Nevada 89015
702.267.4337 


-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Anderson [mailto:cra at WPI.EDU] 
Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 12:18 PM
To: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Re: Inside plant 10G fiber specs?

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 02:16:53PM -0400, Jeff Kell wrote:
> I am working up network specs for a new building, and trying to
> accomodate a 10G distribution from the start.  The safe bet of running
> singlemode everywhere doesn't quite fit due to cost of the optics and
> the need for multimode for some other (non-network) devices anyway.

Pull a hybrid MM/SM cable.  For the life expectancy of most fiber 
installs, you'll want the SM to run 10G now, and 40G, 100G, ?? in the 
future over the same infrastructure.  SM optics aren't really that 
much more expensive anymore.







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