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Re: CX4 to XFP


From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:48:51 -0700



On 04/16/2010 08:35 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
On Fri, 16 Apr 2010, William Jobs wrote:

Has anyone else undertaken a similar setup? What were the difficulties
you
encountered especially in terms of reduced throughput, packet loss
etc. Any
recommended media converters?

Why media converter? There are CX4 XFPs as far as I can google...

the cx4 interface is xaui 4x3Gb/s, as is xenpack. xfp is xfi 1 x 10Gb/s
so connecting the two requires a serdes device.



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