Tangentially related to xR1, have any of you started deploying SN connectors on your 400G head-ends? It looks like a pretty clever technology, adding discrete connectors per lane, but curious what the adoption has been thus far.

On Tue, Apr 4, 2023 at 8:55 AM Mikael Abrahamsson via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> wrote:
On Tue, 4 Apr 2023, Jared Mauch wrote:

> We are willing to do 100G-LR1 if someone asks these days.  It lets us be
> able to roll it up into 400G optics on our side as appropriate.

I hope the industry moves to 100G-LR1, as doing 2x100GBASE-LR4 in a 400G
port is quite meh when it comes to faceplate capacity.

Unfortunately 100GBASE-LR4 will be with us for a long long time.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se