[c-nsp] Cisco SG500XG 10GE switch

Michael Loftis mloftis at wgops.com
Mon Mar 16 22:42:25 EDT 2015


Being the "small business" line lately generally means not managed in the
war we would think of it - strictly in band web based. There are standalone
managed OEOs out there though.

On Monday, March 16, 2015, Philip Smith <pfsinoz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> This is a bit of a long shot, I know...
>
> Does anyone have any experience of using the Cisco SG500XG 10GE switch
> with (long haul - ie 80km) ZR optics?
>
> Cisco don't list the SFP+ as a supported one in the spec (just goes up
> to 40km).
>
> I'm just wondering if I can use this switch as a "repeater" in some long
> haul 10GE links. The idea was to put a simple managed switch in so that
> it'd be easier troubleshooting individual spans (if required) than
> putting in an unmanaged device like a 10Gbase to 10GBase optical line
> converter (with two 10G ZR SFP+)
>
> Thanks for any suggestions!
>
> philip
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