[c-nsp] NCS-5001 - MPLS L3VPN Issue

[Phil Bedard]

The issues vendors have expressed when I asked was fiber quality, keeping connectors clean, and then just the HW to interface components at really high speeds. It’s not that they couldn’t make it work, but it just wasn’t worth it over what they can do with copper right now and into the future.  

The newer CDC optical gear use optical meshes where the fiber is layed on a board similar to a circuit board, I would expect doing something like that would solve some of the issues.  


Phil 


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.mu>
Date: Wednesday, March 2, 2016 at 01:10
To: Phil B <philxor at gmail.com>, Adam Vitkovsky <Adam.Vitkovsky at gamma.co.uk>, Gert Doering <gert at greenie.muc.de>, Phil Mayers <p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk>
Cc: "cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net" <cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] NCS-5001 - MPLS L3VPN Issue

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>On 1/Mar/16 19:08, Phil Bedard wrote:
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>> Optical will come at some point, but not in the near future, there are issues with optical backplanes that aren’t easy to solve.  
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>Does anyone know how Compass Networks have solved (or are solving) this
>problem?
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>Mark.