[AusNOG] 100G/200G/400G coming down the pipe (so to speak)

[Paul Brooks]

On 8/03/2012 11:18 AM, Ben Dale wrote:
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> That's interesting to hear - in the (albeit limited) space we play (intra-DC, minimal amplification/re-gen, 70-80% of customers under 80km), this tipping point hasn't really occurred yet.
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> Spectrally it's 4 lambdas vs. 10 so the amplification difference is marginal in these shorter hauls, but it's the 100G transponders that still seem quite astronomical compared to the standard 10G transponder/dense-wave XFP combo.

At the risk of going low-rent, I'd be at least looking at coloured optics and some
passive CWDM filters/combiners in that sort of shorter-range deployment. No need to
build a spaceship to travel across town :-;.

P.