On 12/19/17 10:24, Sabri Berisha wrote: > ----- On Dec 18, 2017, at 9:49 AM, Fredrik Korsbäck hu...@nordu.net wrote: > >> This is the "failure" of us (the business) choosing QSFP as the de-factor >> formfactor for 100G, there is not power in >> that cage to make 10km+ optics in an easy way. If we would have pushed for >> CFP4 >> as the "last" formfactor in 100G land we >> would be much better off. > How about OSFP? The OSFP MSA has a large number of backers, including > Juniper, Arista, Finisar and Google. > > It's the vendors that chose to go for QSFP due to the density options in a > single RU chassis. osfp is potentially 540W in the front panel of a 1ru switch which poses it's own engineering challenges. > > Thanks, > > Sabri >
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