[AusNOG] 40G/100G

[Ankit Agrawal]

If I can get 100 GE at the cost of 40 or even 10, I'd be happy to move
straight to 100 GE, which is much better in every respect.

I mentioned 40G as an option so I could get you to sell me 100G for the
price of 10G :)

Ankit.

On 13/02/13 9:08 AM, "Darren Ward" <darward at hotmail.com> wrote:

>Thought I'd float this into a separate thread to see if it started
>anything...
>
>Also probably starting a flame war but I would have to say you'd be the
>first SP I've seen locally to deploy 40G for routing - everyone is pretty
>much just making the jump over that to 100G especially since you can get
>more bandwidth per slot/chassis/RU given currently available cards and
>range
>isn't a factor with 3000km+ distances out of the router now with coherent
>receiver technology (only optical amplifiers on  path, zero OEO/TXP's - no
>100G interfaces except the end points)
>
>I have seen server vendors mention 40GigE on high-density virtualisation
>boxes though inside the DC... once again necessitation 100G in the
>aggregation/core you would think
>
>Darren
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net
>[mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Ankit Agrawal
>Sent: Wednesday, 13 February 2013 3:34 AM
>To: Craig Askings; ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
>Subject: Re: [AusNOG] powerful routers in core/edge routing/switching
>
>Looking at few 10 and couple 40 GE ports with option to add 100 GE in
>future.
>