Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Questions about DWDM/CWDM

Hi all

We have a dark-fibre link that connects are two DCs. The distance between them is around 38km.

Do we have any options to consider multiplexing? It would be ideal for us to have various 10Gbps (or even 25Gbps courtesy of the Nexus 93180 core) channels across the dark-fibre. I came across this, which is what piqued my interest: https://www.fs.com/au/products/72433.html

Currently we're only looking at a single 25Gbps link over it, however with multiplexing we'd likely use one wavelength for OOB-MGMT, one for backup/vMotion/HA, one for untrusted (pre-firewall INET/DMZ traffic) and others for internal networks as required. I really like the idea of the physical separation.

I've had a lot of experience in the DC and with equipment, just don't know a lot about layer-1 in this capacity.

TIA



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