Re: [10GMMF] Feature Request for 10MMF
To all LRMers
Sorry I could not make it to Portland. This is the last month of our fiscal
year and I am called by a higher power to focus on near term goals :)).
To echo Val's first point, we have been shipping -ER, -LR and -SR to
customers for some many months now. The relevant experience for the 300
meter goal is not comparisons to 1000BASE-SX at this point, but experience
with deployment of the shipping port types and talking to customers about
all the existing and potential 10GBASE- port types.
Customers are communicating a VERY strong requirement for 300 meters on
legacy and new MM fiber. To ignore this requirement is, at the very least,
to neglect the broad market potential criterion. You may not agree with
this requirement but I can tell you from personal experience it is the
expectation today from the customers who want spend money on 10 Gb Ethernet.
thanks
Bruce
At 11:13 PM 7/14/2004 -0700, Val Oliva wrote:
>All,
>
>I want to be clear, as a system vendor, that the
>following are clear customer requirements for this
>standard:
>
>1. 10GMMF must support a maximum distance of 300m
> (not 220m, which I hear from other optic vendors),
> the maximum lenght for support of FDDI-grade fiber.
>
>2. Ability to support single mode fiber using the
> same PHY or standard is critical as well.
>
>Please reply to voliva@foundrynet.com for further
>questions about this requirement.
>
>Thank you. Val Oliva
>
>
>
>
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Bruce Tolley
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