Re: 100G-LR1 (DR/FR)

[Tyler Conrad <Tyler () tgconrad com>]

Tangentially related to xR1, have any of you started deploying SN
connectors on your 400G head-ends? It looks like a pretty clever
technology, adding discrete connectors per lane, but curious what the
adoption has been thus far.

On Tue, Apr 4, 2023 at 8:55 AM Mikael Abrahamsson via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>
wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Apr 2023, Jared Mauch wrote:
>
> > We are willing to do 100G-LR1 if someone asks these days.  It lets us be
> > able to roll it up into 400G optics on our side as appropriate.
>
> I hope the industry moves to 100G-LR1, as doing 2x100GBASE-LR4 in a 400G
> port is quite meh when it comes to faceplate capacity.
>
> Unfortunately 100GBASE-LR4 will be with us for a long long time.
>
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> Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike () swm pp se