I'd either sell the XENPAK-10GB-ZR for a few grand, or toss it on the shelves for when you actually need the 80km, and go buy a used XENPAK-10GB-ER for a few hundred bucks.
$0.02. -- Stephen F. Cobb • Senior Sales Engineer CCNA/CCDA/DCNID/ATSP Telecoast Communications, LLC • Santa Barbara, CA o 877.677.1182 x272 • c 760.807.0570 • f 805.618.1610 aim/yahoo telecoaststephen On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 4:59 AM, Rinse Kloek <[email protected]>wrote: > ER and ZR optics can be used to connect to each other. I have done this > before with succes. > Keep in mind that you can use the maximum distance of the ER optic. Also > use attenuators of 10 dB if you are testing this setup in a lab. > > Rinse > Op 19-4-2010 13:47, Nick Hilliard schreef: > > On 19/04/2010 12:37, wailun ip wrote: >> >> >>> Just wanted to check if anyone has used an ER 10G optic to connect to an >>> ZR >>> optic, they use the same wavelength so was wondering if there are any >>> know >>> issues. >>> >>> I am specifically trying to connect an XENPACK-10GB-ZR= to X2-10GB-ER= >>> >>> >> I don't see why this wouldn't work. All optical transceivers have >> wideband >> receivers, so you can operate mis-matched transceivers without any >> trouble. >> >> Just make sure that the signal is attenuated properly in each direction. >> Otherwise you will burn out the receivers at each end. >> >> Nick >> _______________________________________________ >> cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] >> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp >> archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ >> >> > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
