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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Advice/Experience with small sized DDWM gear
Deepak Jain writes: [a response with excellent pieces of advice on CWDM vs. DWDM.] > If you are planning more than just 1 DF run, you could buy the less > expensive solution and just swap it out when you need something more and use > the CWDM solution somewhere else. Yes. What we often do is buy a single pair of fiber (which happens to be the smallest amount you can get) and use a bi-directional optical system (CWDM or DWDM). So we have one of the two fibers free for a later upgrade (or another useful purpose). [...] > So its a question of how much BW you need and how much you > want to pay for right now. An excellent management summary of CWDM vs. DWDM :-) -- Simon.
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