[c-nsp] 6500s/XFPs (Was XENPAK 10GB-LW (WAN PHY))

Tue May 30 16:55:13 EDT 2006

> Do Cisco have anything in the pipeline for XFPs on 6500s? 

Well there's the XFP-10GLR-OC192SR in SPA-1XTENGE-XFP in 7600-
SIP-600, but...

> (That will be comparable in cost to the 6704/Xenpak solution)

>From what I've been told, no. The argument was that multimode is
very important for a lot of their big (enterprise?) customers and
that you can't do LX4 on XFPs.

Coming modules should be X2-based, however.

-A