[j-nsp] 3rd party DWDM SFPs

[Chuck Anderson]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 01:06:26PM -0400, Matt Yaklin wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Chuck Anderson wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 06:32:34PM +0200, Jonas Frey wrote:
>>> FWLF1613xx are multirate sonet-only SFP's. They can do OC3/OC12/OC48.
>>> However they wont work with ethernet applications.
>
> I read the spec sheet on the webpage you first linked to and I read
> it as OC3/OC12/OC48 only also.
>
> This does not mean in any fashion that Finisar does not make the
> rght SFP for your application. I just have never used a multirate
> SFP before that does OC48 and gigE ethernet so I am ignorant about
> the choices out there.

Interesting.  The spec sheet only mentions OC-3/OC-12/OC-48:

Data Rate Min 0.155, Max 2.7 Gb/sec, SONET OC-3/12/48 compatible 

but the Matrix mentions more speeds:

>> http://www.finisar.com/download_FEfGOsOptics_Matrix_Guide.pdf

The Optics Matrix Guide is hard to follow on a computer screen due to 
poor PDF layout, but printing it out 2-pages-to-1 side-by-side, the 
chart indicates that both FWLF1631xx and FWLF1631Rxx support Optical 
Fast Ethernet, Optical Gigabit Ethernet, 1x FC, 2x FC, SONET OC-3, 
SONET OC-12, and SONET OC-48.

I guess I'll have to call and find out more.