On 5/5/23 19:02, Jared Brown wrote:
You can get 100G optics for less than half those prices. For reference, here are publicly listed prices for optics from an European vendor I have in production: 100G 4WDM & CLR4 QSFP28 * 10 km * 225€ 100GBASE-LR4 & OTU4 & 128GFC QSFP28 * 20km *305€ 100GBASE-ER4 Lite & OTU4 & 128GFC QSFP28 * 40 km * 1030€ 100GBASE-ZR4 QSFP28 * 80 km * 1650€ 100GBASE-ZR4+ QSFP28 * 100 km * 2100€ These prices are for single units without discounts.
It wasn't so much about the pricing that I was posting, but more about the value of 100Gbps over anything slower, if your main incentive is optics price.
Mark.
