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Owen, You are an optimist. Initially, the pricing will be more then an order of magnitude higher. :) Chris -----Original Message----- From: Owen DeLong [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 2:51 PM To: Stephen Sprunk Cc: Chris Cole; Mikael Abrahamsson; North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes Subject: Re: IEEE 40GE & 100GE So, assuming this translates roughly to optics being: $1,000 4km $1,300 10km $2,600 40km You'd rather have to pay $2,600 for all your campus links than $1,300 for all your LAN links? My preference would be quite different. I'd much rather pay $1,300 for the LAN links than $2,600 for the Campus links. Owen On Dec 13, 2007, at 1:51 PM, Stephen Sprunk wrote: > > Thus spake "Chris Cole" <[email protected]> >> The 40km/10km cost ratio is between 1.6x and 2x, depending on >> the source. >> >> The 10km/4km cost ratio is between 1.15x and 1.3x, again >> depending on the source. > > If those numbers translate into prices (not costs), then I'd prefer > to see 40km and 4km optics, with no 10km optics. The important > point is that the 40km optics neet to be able to handle 4.1km links > with no attenuators, preferably without any human tuning at all. > You only pay the extra capital cost once (if there even is any, due > to more volume of fewer parts), but you pay labor and sparing over > and over. > > S > > Stephen Sprunk "God does not play dice." --Albert Einstein > CCIE #3723 "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the > K5SSS dice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen Hawking
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