Hi, At this stage we wouldn't be able to justify the spend to go 100G on ASR9k. We're not talking about a single router or interface here, but quite a few. Besides - that doesn't really answer the question what to do with distances over the 10km.
kind regards Pshem On 28 February 2014 13:06, Peter Lothberg <[email protected]> wrote: >> We just started planning to upgrade our 10G (and nx10G) links to 40G >> (on ASR9k). Quick scan through Cisco website revealed that there are >> no 40km optics available from Cisco. That threw a big spanner into the >> works as we have a bunch of links definitely over LR budgets. >> >> So the question is - how do you do 40G in metro areas? Deploy some >> sort of amplifiers? Go through DWDM or OTN devices? > > > Why 40? Do 100G coherent instead, you can build the whole optical > system out of splitters as we did in Croatia.. > > Ask for line_cards with optics that conforms to this spec... > > http://www.stupi.se/Standards/100G-long-haul4.pdf and you can mix and > match vendors... > > > -P > > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
