Re: CX4 to XFP

2010-04-16 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 16/04/2010 16:48, Joel Jaeggli wrote: > the cx4 interface is xaui 4x3Gb/s, as is xenpack. xfp is xfi 1 x 10Gb/s > so connecting the two requires a serdes device. you're mixing up interfaces here. This is certainly true of the electrical interface between transceiver and transceiver port. Howe

Re: CX4 to XFP

2010-04-16 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On 04/16/2010 08:53 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > On Fri, 16 Apr 2010, Joel Jaeggli wrote: > >> >> >> On 04/16/2010 08:35 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: >>> On Fri, 16 Apr 2010, William Jobs wrote: >>> Has anyone else undertaken a similar setup? What were the difficulties you enc

Re: CX4 to XFP

2010-04-16 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Fri, 16 Apr 2010, Joel Jaeggli wrote: On 04/16/2010 08:35 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Fri, 16 Apr 2010, William Jobs wrote: Has anyone else undertaken a similar setup? What were the difficulties you encountered especially in terms of reduced throughput, packet loss etc. Any recommen

Re: CX4 to XFP

2010-04-16 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On 04/16/2010 08:35 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > On Fri, 16 Apr 2010, William Jobs wrote: > >> Has anyone else undertaken a similar setup? What were the difficulties >> you >> encountered especially in terms of reduced throughput, packet loss >> etc. Any >> recommended media converters? > >

Re: CX4 to XFP

2010-04-16 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Fri, 16 Apr 2010, William Jobs wrote: Has anyone else undertaken a similar setup? What were the difficulties you encountered especially in terms of reduced throughput, packet loss etc. Any recommended media converters? Why media converter? There are CX4 XFPs as far as I can google... -- Mi

CX4 to XFP

2010-04-16 Thread William Jobs
Hi, I need to connect a router and a server over 10G. The router has a XFP interface and the server has a CX4 interface. Has anyone else undertaken a similar setup? What were the difficulties you encountered especially in terms of reduced throughput, packet loss etc. Any recommended media convert