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Old 04-21-2009, 07:27 AM  
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Originally Posted by marketsmart View Post
whats dwdm up to these days? the last i saw was 8x about 7 years ago..
typically about 40 channels per fiber stran for metro stuff.


We met with ciena networks last week for some dwdm gear, they claim they can pack in up to 100Gbps over 1 wave. soo 400Gbps over a pair of fiber? heh I'm new to dwdm stuff these days.

You can still run passive optics and do 8 channels for the cheap and do up to 80Gbps that way though.
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