> It's possible they might get there. Engineers are pretty creative people > about getting > around the perceived limits of reality.
That's kind of how I'd like to interpret it: that while multi-mode will always be cheaper for short runs (due to the ability to use dimmer transceivers) and slower for long tuns (due to the multi-modal dispersion problem) than single-mode. *But* maybe that won't matter so much, since we tend to be comfortable using "one-notch below the maximum" speed at any given time. > So one thing you can do is to run a cable with multiple multi-mode fibers. > Light one > strand on gigabit, then if that link starts getting saturated, light a > second and bond > the links at the switch. Already planning on this. Rather than trying to have a single high-speed link between two "core switches"—one at each campus—and distributing bandwidth out from there, I intend to have multiple switches (2 to start, then more) at campus B Gigabit linked to a "core switch" at campus A which will have several, bonded, copper Gigabit links to our server switch. Thanks to both Andrew and Rob for your thoughts! _______________________________________________ Fwlug mailing list [email protected] http://mail.fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org This is a public list and all posts are archived publicly. Please keep this in mind before posting.
