On 10 Dec 2012, at 07:46, Saku Ytti <[email protected]> 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. > Can you name optic only available in X2 casing, not XFP? I'd be surprised > to find one.
10GBase-LX4? Since it needs to fit 4 lasers + mux inside (plus, also, the 4-lanes thing). Of course this should have been mostly replaced by 10GBase-LRM now. > When I asked years ago in San Jose EBC from BU guy about their love for X2 > the simply stated because it's most deployed/common 10GE switch optic in > the market. > I don't know if he was being funny or serious, considering Cisco was (still > is?) at that time shipping most 10GE ethernet ports in the world. So even > if their optic was techno goblins flickering glowsticks in a rave, it would > still be factually true statement. I'd prefer the glowsticks to an X2. On the other hand, converting an X2 slot to SFP+ is quite cheap now and a very viable option. -- Will _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
