North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: Copper 10 gigabit @ 15 metres
> > While there are some smitherings about 10GigE, there are > technical reasons and > > market reasons it is not really ready for prime yet, that is > not to say it's not going > > to happen, it is just not going happen now. > > > > Some people are using it in the MAN and WAN now though. Exactly. At the EQIX/ASH GPF Telia and AOL both said they were using 10GE cross-connects for private peering. So that means at least 3-4 major networks are using them in production in a LAN, MAN or WAN environment. When you are aggregating lots of a GEs, there isn't really a great, cost-effective way to move all of these bits cost-effectively. nxOC48 is pretty cheap, but a little ugly if you need the bandwidth unchoked. 10GE is supposed to get there, but at a 10xGE price, not a OC192 type price. The real advantage of Copper 10G is that eventually you can deploy it to all the existing copper [inside] plants that people have currently deployed. Just like GE, it eventually just becomes tolerant enough to use existing wiring. I would be very happy if the first boxes that came out with these long range xenpaks were muxes that would take 10xGE -> 1x10GE -- this would solve the uplink problem from smaller gear in a heartbeat. Deepak Jain AiNET
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