RE: OT: Looking for Ethernt/Optical Device

["Church, Chuck" <cchurch () wamnetgov com>]

You need to check the switches to make sure they support the xWDM GBICs
though.  The older Cisco switches don't support them.  Last time I
checked, 3500XLs didn't support them, but 3550s did... 


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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On Behalf Of
Erik Haagsman
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 11:49 AM
To: Michael Smith
Cc: nanog () merit edu
Subject: Re: OT: Looking for Ethernt/Optical Device


What you could try is use the Cisco CWDM-MUX-4 and it's pluggable optics
that can be fit into any GBIC 802.3z compliant slot. It's just an OADM
with 4 or 8 wavelengths that delivers GigE to any box with pluggable
GBICs provided you use the right optics and it's quite a bit cheaper
than using ONS stuff. That said, CWDM doesn't get you much further than
80 kilometres, above that DWDM is your only option, and a hell of a lot
more expensive.

Cheers,

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On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 17:30, Michael Smith wrote:
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> I'm wondering if anyone has seen a good and cheap(er) solution for
> providing multiple Gigabit Ethernet circuits over single pair of
> fiber.  I'm looking for a way to do CWDM or DWDM that's cheaper than
> putting in a Cisco 15454 or 15327.  I'm only going to be doing 2 GigE
> circuits between two switches, so I don't need to plan for future
> growth.
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> If anyone knows of a magic box that will do the above I would love to
> hear about it.
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> Thanks,
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> Mike
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