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RE: Copper 10 gigabit @ 15 metres
From: "Deepak Jain" <deepak () ai net>
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 13:16:27 -0500
While there are some smitherings about 10GigE, there aretechnical reasons andmarket reasons it is not really ready for prime yet, that isnot to say it's not goingto happen, it is just not going happen now.Some people are using it in the MAN and WAN now though.
Exactly. At the EQIX/ASH GPF Telia and AOL both said they were using 10GE cross-connects for private peering. So that means at least 3-4 major networks are using them in production in a LAN, MAN or WAN environment. When you are aggregating lots of a GEs, there isn't really a great, cost-effective way to move all of these bits cost-effectively. nxOC48 is pretty cheap, but a little ugly if you need the bandwidth unchoked. 10GE is supposed to get there, but at a 10xGE price, not a OC192 type price. The real advantage of Copper 10G is that eventually you can deploy it to all the existing copper [inside] plants that people have currently deployed. Just like GE, it eventually just becomes tolerant enough to use existing wiring. I would be very happy if the first boxes that came out with these long range xenpaks were muxes that would take 10xGE -> 1x10GE -- this would solve the uplink problem from smaller gear in a heartbeat. Deepak Jain AiNET
Current thread:
- Copper 10 gigabit @ 15 metres Eric Kuhnke (Nov 04)
- RE: Copper 10 gigabit @ 15 metres Deepak Jain (Nov 04)
- RE: Copper 10 gigabit @ 15 metres Mikael Abrahamsson (Nov 05)
- RE: Copper 10 gigabit @ 15 metres Henry Linneweh (Nov 05)
- RE: Copper 10 gigabit @ 15 metres Henry Linneweh (Nov 05)
- RE: Copper 10 gigabit @ 15 metres Mikael Abrahamsson (Nov 05)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Copper 10 gigabit @ 15 metres Neil J. McRae (Nov 05)
- RE: Copper 10 gigabit @ 15 metres Deepak Jain (Nov 05)
- RE: Copper 10 gigabit @ 15 metres Mikael Abrahamsson (Nov 05)
- RE: Copper 10 gigabit @ 15 metres Henry Linneweh (Nov 05)
- RE: Copper 10 gigabit @ 15 metres Deepak Jain (Nov 05)
- RE: Copper 10 gigabit @ 15 metres Henry Linneweh (Nov 05)
- RE: Copper 10 gigabit @ 15 metres Deepak Jain (Nov 05)
- RE: Copper 10 gigabit @ 15 metres Deepak Jain (Nov 04)