On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 03:55:51PM -0700, Greg Lindahl wrote: > Fiber is a commodity. Perhaps you were looking for pricing close > enough to twisted pair copper? In any case, it's not just the cost per > length of cable, the endpoints for fiber are also more expensive.
Right now you need GBICs, a splicing cassette, and a splicer (a 10 k$ device). The future looks very bright for polymer fiber, which can be processed with a simple sharp knife (100 MBit/s Ethernet kits + converters are reasonably cheap, 1 GBit/s is being developed -- 10 GBit/s might be rather challenging, unless there's photonic crystal technology). -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
