RE: 850 nm solutions
Hi Corey,
could you please clarify the statement below? Where on earth
does this half-meter length spec for 1000BASE-CX come from?
Copper GBICs should be good for from 5 to 20 meters at
gigabit rates.
Regards,
Ed Grivna
> Speaking as a customer, we would likely make use of almost
> as many 10M links as those > 10M. We currently use GigE
> links for both servers (1500 MTU and Jumbo) and as connections
> for distribution switches. We find the 0.5M Copper GBIC's less
> than useful, but about 35% of our links are <=10M. A low-cost
> 10-25M Coax would be quite useful as most of our connections in
> the data centers can utilize this length. The three predominant
> uses for our 1G connections today are spread fairly evenly
> about 1/3rd each:
>
>
> Corey McCormick
> CITGO Petroleum
> corey@xxxxxxxxx
>