[c-nsp] 10GE sanity check

Azher Mughal azheramin at gmail.com
Sat May 17 22:48:41 EDT 2008


It should not work as both have different encoding and no of wavelengths.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps5718/ps708/prod_white_paper0900aecd802a648b.html

-Azher

Justin M. Streiner wrote:
> I'm just looking for a quick sanity check here on 10GE optics.
>
> A 10GBASE-LX4 xenpak or X2 module will not talk to a 10GBASE-LR module, 
> correct?  I'd test this assertion in my lab, but I don't have a spare LR 
> module at the moment.  From what I've read of the coding and transmission 
> specs for both types of optics, they wouldn't seem to be compatible, but I 
> could be wrong :)  CCO doesn't seem to have much info on module-to-module 
> compatibility, probably because they assume the optics will be the same at 
> both ends, but vendor differences in this case make that impossible.
>
> Thanks in advance
> jms
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