Bear with my ignorance, I'm genuinely surprised at this:
Does this have to be Ethernet? You could look into line gear with coherent optics.
Specifically, do you mean something like: "does this have to be IEEE-standardized all the way down to L1 optics?" Because you can transmit Ethernet frames over line gear with coherent optics, right ?
Please don't flame me, I'm just ignorant and willing to learn.
Cheers,
Etienne
Does this have to be Ethernet? You could look into line gear with coherent optics. IIRC, they have built-in chromatic dispersion compensation, and depending on the card, would include amplification.
How is everyone accomplishing 100GbE at farther than 40km distances?
Juniper is saying it can't be done with anything they offer, except for a single CFP-based line card that is EOL.
There are QSFP "ZR" modules from third parties, but I am hesitant to try those without there being an equivalent official part.
The application is an ISP upgrading from Nx10G, where one of their fiber paths is ~35km and the other is ~60km.
thanks,
-Randy
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