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Deepak Jain <[email protected]> writes: >> I'm on board with that as far as it goes, but has the scenario of >> adjustable launch powers so that you don't ever need attenuators plus >> the economy of scale that would come from having *one* type of >> interface for 1m-10km runs been considered? It seems to me based on >> what I've seen of the optics market that once you make something a >> mass-produced commodity the price falls awfully far - suppose the >> price difference was $250 vs. $375, that's a big difference on a >> percentage basis but pocket change on an absolute basis. >> > > I'm inclined to agree that when we are talking about unit numbers > between 10km >> 40km optics, the marginal price change of a few bucks > per optic (vs the human time to go and fix/groom/find/reduce optical > losses) is pretty minimal. > > For that 1% of customers that finds their total cost significantly > impacted (vs, say the cost of the equipment these are going into, > etc).... would force 10% of us to have to engineer bypass > cross-connect panels with fewer physical connections (and spliced ones > at that) to get the job done. > > Just my guess... but no one has really complained about 10km reach > optics being so expensive after the first 5 minutes they've been on > the market. > > Personally, I wish this much cost could be cut out of the 80/120km > optics market... but hey, no one is asking me. So, the unspoken point of what I was suggesting is "why not two kinds of optics: medium to short and super-long?? Simplifies sparing. ---Rob
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