10Gig Fibre.... guidance!

[Stevehewitt]

Hi all,

Looking at replacing our ancient 3Com 1Gig switches in our server rooms. I'm looking at using HP ProCurve 2900 series.

Currently we have a 4Gig link between the 2 server rooms using 4x aggregated 1Gig links. Whilst this works OK the new topology is going to require us to have a bigger backbone.

After looking into 10Gig fibre (copper / CX-4 won't work as the rooms are about 30m's apart) it seems that 10GBASE-LRM is pretty popular and pretty cheap in comparison to the others.

My question is.... is it really as simple for me to buy two HP 2900 switches, slap in a 10GBASE-LRM Transceiver (10-GbE X2-SC LRM) on both of them and run a bit of fibre between them? Nothing required in-between or hidden costs? From what I've read 10GBASE-LRM works on any MMF fibre which I believe we already have so is there anything I'm missing? Is a 10Gig fibre backbone really that easy to deploy?

Cheers,



Steve.

"They have the internet on computers now!" - Homer Simpson

 

[jimbopalmer]

While I am mystified why this is a TCP/IP question, I would look to be sure you had 50 nm MMF fiber if you need to go over 220m. For 30 m, 62.5 nm should be fine.

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