EWeek is reporting that Cisco in June will release an optical fiber transceiver adapter based on the new IEEE 902.3aq standard that is almost $3,000 cheaper than the list price of equivalent products currently available.
According to eWeek:
Cisco will release in June a new adapter for its Catalyst switches that allows customers to upgrade links to 10 Gigabit Ethernet using legacy optical fiber technology, used with older FDDI standards.
The cost of the adapter transceiver, which operates over multimode fiber links, is a fraction of the cost of existing 10 Gigabit Ethernet optics, according to Marie Hattar, senior director of network systems marketing at Cisco, in Santa Clara, Calif.
The paper cites Kumar Srikantan, Cisco director of product management as saying that the adapter will list for $1,495, compared with $4,000 for existing 10 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces.
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