hi rick, there are no cx4-sfp+ cables, as there's a format conversion (8/10 encoding to 64/66) so you need electronics.
you can purchase single cx4-sfp+ adapters, made by ~three different companies, $1Kish. there are less expensive CX4 fiber cables than the one you received a quote on. details on various cable vendors are on the casper web site. but as far as i know, the fiber cables all need power through the connector. we might have some you can try out. perhaps you could open the connector, and solder a wire, and feed 12 volts in. best wishes, dan On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 3:07 PM, rick raffanti <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Casperions, > See below from Anton Tremsin at SSL. We are using the ROACH-I and have no > need for the power of ROACH-2. So we're stuck with CX4 cables, and a CX4 > NIC. Are there any other ways to go here? I saw a posting here about a > 4-channel CX4-to-SPF+ box, but that's big and unwieldy and power hungry. > Is it possible to go CX4 to SFP+ in the cable and then buy an SFP+ NIC? Or > something like that? > Thanks, > Rick Raffanti > > > -------- Original Message -------- Subject: 10Gb fiberoptic cable Date: Thu, > 04 Oct 2012 14:21:10 -0700 From: Anton Tremsin > <[email protected]><[email protected]> To: > Rick Raffanti <[email protected]> <[email protected]> > > Hi Rick, > > I found the company which can sell us the 10Gb fiberoptic cable, exactly > the same as I have now. I went through a long chain of very helpful > people and in the end here it is. > > If anyone at Casper need that one we can share the access to those guys. > They did not ask for the minimum order, but their price is quite a bit > higher than what we had before. Since we do not have choice and do need > those I guess we should buy a couple of them before they become obsolete > in that company. > > Do you think they will keep active the network cards with CX4 (this new > version T420)? Or we will have to deal with the conversion to SFP(?) > fiberoptic on one side and a converter (quite expensive and bulky) on > Roach side? > > > > Anton > > > > > >
