[c-nsp] 15km optics

Gergely Antal skoal at skoal.name
Fri Mar 13 15:18:35 EDT 2009


Is there similar options also in the 10G market...
I have the same problem like Ray but on 10G
with cisco LR modules i have -16.5 RX receive power,and the telco says
that thay dont support ER or ZR.


Gert Doering wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:48:15PM -0300, Ray Burkholder wrote:
>> I have a carrier which has about 13km to 15km of fibre to their CO.  They
>> run 1310 nm alcatel equipment on their end.  I was wanting to use a Cisco
>> GLC-LH-SM on my end but that is rated for 10km.  The GLC-ZX-SM is 1550 nm
>> 70km device which is incompatible.  
>>
>> Does anyone have suggestions on how to complete this link?  inexpensive
>> optical regenerator?  small intermediate alcaltel box?   a cisco SFP running
>> 1310 nm and has longer range?
> 
> There's 3rd-party "LX40" modules that are 1310 and can go up to 40km,
> available as GBIC or SFP.
> 
> We use a few of those and are quite happy.  Of course IOS complains 
> "bah, bah, don't do that".
> 
> gert

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