[c-nsp] X2 optics (Re: Making SUP720 cope better under BGP load)

[Nick Hilliard]

On 10/12/2012 06:56, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> It's because it's enterprise gear, and from what I'm told, enterprise has
> lovefest with multimode fiber and needs bulky optics to handle LX4 to get
> sufficient reach on their legacy cable plants.

seems like a poor trade-off to me.  You play the cost of vendor tie-in and
the support / expense cost of exotic optics against the cost of running new
SMF and dispensing with all these requirements forever more.  Then again if
you're enterprise, you've probably also been suckered into running eigrp,
<giggle>.

Nick