Doesn't MRV sell a CDWM 'thingy' that will take two GigE links and combine them onto a single 2.5 gb Lambda? You would still need to eat up to SFP ports on your routers but you would get 2 gbps over the same fiber pairs with EtherChannel bonding.
Note: 'thingy' is a highly technical term and should be used sparingly... On May 21, 2008, at 6:18 PM, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: > On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 04:05:28PM -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote: >> Has anyone tried to use 2.5 gig SFP's with Juniper M-series as a drop >> in replacement for regular 1 gig SFP's? The goal is to be able to >> have a 2.5 gig link between an M10i and an M120 over a regional >> optical network. Does this sort of thing work? > > If you put them into an OC48 card, sure. Multirate means the SFP > itself is > capable of operating at multiple speeds (to support 1G/2G FC, OC48, > and > its increasingly common to find new models that support 4G FC as > well). > This doesn't make your 1GE card operate any faster, it just means > you can > reuse that same SFP in an OC48 card (which helps lower costs). > > Of course it would be remarkably easy for Ethernet to be extended to > support higher data speeds without any real change in the structure or > encoding, just like FC has managed to go from 1G to 2G to 4G with > the same > backwards compatible ports. Unfortunately the IEEE has its > collective head > so far up its collective ass that nothing this useful will ever be > standardized, but there are actuall some folks (like Broadcom) making > non-standard "2.5 Gigabit Ethernet" products for certain > applications. :) > > -- > Richard A Steenbergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras > GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 > 2CBC) > _______________________________________________ > juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
