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

[Phil Mayers]

On 12/10/2012 11:02 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> 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>.

It is a very poor trade off.

FWIW we buy the X2-SFP+ converters for all X2 ports now, 6500 and N7k. 
They work fine, and are cheap enough to not worry about.