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Originally Posted by Spudstr
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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That is correct. We are building a metro ring now and have quotes from all of the major providers. Ciena gear can handle 100Gbps on a single strand (which even though all of the gear providers say is 200Gbps it is still really only 100Gbps redundant)....but it is still a good size hit against capx costs. We got them down to about $240k with their single chassis redundant boxes. Transmode is playing at the bottom of the list doing 40Gbps redundant for about $150k. We are leaning towards the Adva gear because they are between the two but they are located about 8 miles from us and we like having our vendors in our backyard. ;)
--T