What are you trying to do? Why do you need the receive side to be tuned to a specific narrowband wavelength? Coherent doesn't really make sense in 10G becaue 10G long-haul is still on/off keyed and doesn't care about phase. Coherent detectors are needed where phase of the signal is important like long-haul 100G where multiple analog photonic signals are mixed on the transmit side. It also requires DSPs to process the received information. You aren't going to put a DSP inside a SFP+ cage. With CFP2/CFP4/QSFP28 the optics vendors would like people to start building the DSP onto line cards, whether it be a router or transport shelf, because there just isn't the packaging room to make it happen. Terastream today doesn't use integrated router optics, they use Cisco's nV-Optical solution. The connection between the router and transport shelf is still gray optics, but the system is managed as a single logical entity, with a 1:1 correlation between router port and transponder. You "tune" the wavelength on the router because of the 1:1 correlation. Terastream just uses passive DWDM muxes/demuxes, also part of the same Cisco transport solution, and Cisco VOAs/amps. -Phil On 4/25/14, 2:59 PM, "Tim Durack" <tdurack@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Tim Durack <tdurack@gmail.com> wrote:
Anyone know if pluggable coherent DWDM 10Gig optics exist? (I'm finding no such thing.)
How about narrow-band/filtered receive 10Gig optics? (Inline FBG filter receive side might be doable?)
-- Tim:>
p.s. Before you ask, DTAG Terastream has got me thinking...
As a follow up, there are lots of people willing to sell various flavours of DWDM optics, but as I suspected, there is no such thing as a coherent/tuned/filtered receive 10GigE DWDM optic. All 10GigE optics are wide-band receive. However, you can get inline optical filters, Santec OFM-15 for example. Investigating...
-- Tim:>