10Gb over single strand of SM fiber?

[jdjames24x7]

I have seen a couple products from other vendors that support 10Gb on a single strand, but there does not appear to be an HP branded product that supports this.

Does anyone know of any 3rd party products that would suppor this whether its an SFP+ or media converter?

Thanks in advance for any input!

James

[manuel.bitzi]

I worked with 1000BaseBX in the past. But never seen something for 10G.

Search for 10GBASE-BX in the Internet and you will find many vendors, but nobody can assure that they will work in a hp switch before you have tested it.

br

Manuel

[Richard Litchfield]

Since you are posting in E Series you are presumably talking about ProCurve and not Comware switches?

The ProCurve switches will only work with ProCurve optics/DACs with the ProCurve V2 vendor ID. ie third party optics won't work unluess they have a licenced ProCurve V2 vendor ID.

[Comware switches generate an error message, but seem to work with most/all optics/DACs.]

PS: no ProCurve "BX" 10Gb modules for a single core connection!

[glaycock]

James,

I had a customer looking for this solution too.  There are not many vendors that support this yet.  I would recommend letting your HP sales and SA team know about your request so they can elevate this to the product manager for optics as the more requests he gets the faster a product will be available.

With respect to a third party that supports a media converter do a search for converter XGT+.  I can not tell if they support single strand connectivity by their data sheets but its worth a call.

As noted the ProCurve line does not currently support third party SFP's.

Thanks,

Greg