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In my eyes, MultiModeFibre is on it's way out. The high speed (25G+) does not have good solutions for multimode, and the length limits that physics enforces wi
by benjojo12 2y ago
In my eyes, MultiModeFibre is on it's way out.
The high speed (25G+) does not have good solutions for multimode, and the length limits that physics enforces with multimode mean that it's not "no-brainer" applicable for going any more than between the same rack row.
So if you are dealing with datacenter cross connects that can exceed the max distance for MultiMode then you might spend hours debugging broken stuff for no real gain. MultiMode is slightly cheaper, but it's a false economy the moment stuff does not work correctly. I've spoken to people with DC cross connects that go into the 5km+ of cable distance. So it's easier to just stock one kind of optic per speed, and call it a day.
Equinix I think already phased out MMF XCs
- ComputerGuru 2y agoThanks for the info.
- tssva 2y agoI stopped dealing with large data center providers in 2014. By that point we had switched to using single mode within our colocation spaces and most of the colocation data center providers we dealt with had stopped providing any multimode cross connects prior to that.