On 22 Feb 2013, at 15:19, Stephen Wilcox <[email protected]> wrote:
> Anyone got an recommendations of such that are known to work? I don’t know > enough about the signalling layer of 10Gb to know if it’s even a going > concern with only one direction of light flowing through it. > > You'd probably be best with a cheap switch with 2x 10G on it.. see what you > can find on ebay. Just install one SR and one LR optic and pass everything > through transparently. > > Technically you ought to do it at Layer1 with transponders but the switch is > likely cheaper and easier… This might not work reliably unless you can turn off learning. So what i did was break out both directions into an Extreme switch (with learning turned off on 2 vlans) and use ACLs to match the traffic i wanted into individual GigEs, bending those back into a 6500 with MPLS pseudowires, avoiding the need for too much transmission. But this was because i wanted different sets of traffic to go to different boxes. -- Will Hargrave +44 114 303 4444
