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

[Mikael Abrahamsson]

On Tue, 30 May 2006, Asbjorn Hojmark - Lists wrote:

>> 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.

EW. X2 is Xenpak in another form factor and most likely has the same 
pricepoint.

I also haven't seen anyone but Cisco 4500 BU use X2 so that doesn't bode 
well for the price to go down either.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se