Where can you get CWDM GBIC's for under 400. Most vendors charge 5-10x that price. Scott C. McGrath On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Vincent J. Bono wrote:
Thanks for all the links and help!
The issue is cost and space, and all the products that will work seem to cost upwards of $3,000 and do a lot more than we need or take up a few rack units of space. I am probably going to build a small circuit to handle connecting two GBICs back to back. The pinout from molex was readily available and we can get CWDM GBICs these days for $400 or less and more normal frequencies for sub $150.
Anyway, anyone who is interested in the final product send me email off-list and I'll keep you posted.
-vb
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mikael Abrahamsson" <swmike@swm.pp.se> To: <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 7:21 AM Subject: Re: Gigabit Media Converter
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
Sounds like you need a singlemode-multimode convertor, available from
various
places, cost around $600
Highly unlikely that it'll do CWDM, at least at that price.
Transmode (www.transmode.se) does converters to order, they'll fix things that'll do pretty much any to any (850 / 1310 / (1490-1610) in any combination) including 3R and management (which implies that you need ethernet onsite which might be tricky).
I'd believe they're more in the $3k-$5k range with CWDM optics though. If you need OC48 that'll hike the price up even more.
-- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se