RE: Your 3PMD Proposal
Larry,
These are the advantages of 1300nm WWDM:
1. It is the only solution that will support 300 m on the installed base of
MMF.
2. It is widely acknowledged that in the short term, 1300 nm WWDM will be a
lower cost solution for 10km of SMF than the 1300-nm serial solution. When
exactly the two approaches will cross in price is a subject for debate, but
it will be anywhere between 2 and 4 years.
3. It is the one solution which will satisfy all MMF and SMF links from 1 m
to 10 km.
Yes, it will probably cost more than 850-nm WWDM, but this will only cover
100m of installed MMF and is not compatible with SMF.
-Brian Lemoff
Agilent Technologies
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Rennie [mailto:Larry.Rennie@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 5:15 PM
> To: piers_dawe@xxxxxxxxxxx; 'del.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxx'
> Cc: Stds-802-3-Hssg@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: Your 3PMD Proposal
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> Del and Piers, your presentation
> (http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/3/ae/public/may00/hanson_1
> _0500.pdfon) for
> a proposed set of three PMD's includes 1310 WWDM, but not 850
> WWDM. According
> to slide #6 "Comparison of PMD Technologies" in the
> presentation by Jim Tatum
> (http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/3/ae/public/may00/tatum_1_
> 0500.pdf), it
> looks like the only advantage of 1300 WWDM over 850 WWDM is
> that it can reach
> lengths up to 300m, compared to 100m for 850 WWDM. Also,
> 1300 WWDM can operate
> up to 10Km on SMF, but your proposed 1300 serial PMD looks
> like a better
> solution at 10Km because of its lower cost.
>
> According to the referenced slide, 850 WWDM is half the cost
> of 1300 WWDM and
> can reach lengths up to 550m on the new 50um fiber with a
> bandwidth of
> 2000MHz*km for 850nm. Based on this information, it looks
> like the only
> advantage of using 1300 WWDM over 850 WWDM is that it can
> reach 300m on
> installed 62.5um fiber.
>
> Is this analysis correct and, if so, do you feel that the
> extra length achieved
> by 1300 WWDM on installed MMF is worth the extra cost?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Larry
>
> Lawrence J. Rennie
> National Semiconductor Corporation
> Calabasas, CA.
> larry.rennie@xxxxxxx
> 818 880 2720
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