Fiber optic backbone

No tricks: for me it was almost seemless. I was proviously using Catalyst 100BaseFX with SC connectors. I just plugged these into the GBIC modules (1000BaseSX), instead of the WS-X5201, and away it went. The error rates were much lower as well. We have standard 65? MMF fiber, and it worked a treat.

Kevin Dorrell,
Luxembourg.

Look into Dense Wave Division Multiplexing, it allows for up to 80 channels on a single fiber. Compaq is using it now for their SANS implementations. It would provide better then SONET perfomance, your looking at a 40x increase in availablity on thesame fiber. This is the emerging standard for what your attempting to do.

Pete