Re: 3rd Party Cisco CWDM GBICs?

[Scott McGrath <mcgrath () fas harvard edu>]

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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