10gig coast to coast

Tue Jun 18 03:51:30 UTC 2013

I'm looking for options.

With dark fiber, obviously, I have the ultimate in options.

However, its the ultimate in cost as you say.

The requirement we have is 10gig of actual throughput. Precisely what mechanism is used to transport it isn't all that important, though I'm certain that there will be complaints... :)

I'd LOVE to have me some DWDM, always wanted to run some of that gear, but at that point, why stop at 10G

On Jun 17, 2013, at 7:42 PM, Jeff Kell <jeff-kell at utc.edu> wrote:

> On 6/17/2013 10:32 PM, George Herbert wrote:
>> Also, what are reliability and redundancy requirements.
>> 
>> 10 gigs of bare naked fiber is one thing, but if you need extra paths
>> redundancy, figure that out now and specify.
>> 
>> Is this latency, bandwidth, both?  Mission critical, business critical,
>> less priority?  24x7x365, or subset of that, or intermittent only?
> 
> And are you looking for "dark fiber" or can you deal with a lambda?  Can
> you supply tuned optics for the passive mux carriers?
> 
> Dark coast-to-coast is going to cost you a few appendages.  You may land
> a lambda for a reasonable price depending on the endpoints, you'll need
> an established carrier with DWDM gear on both ends.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 