A prevailing truth about optical networking within data centers is that deploying long-wavelength optics and singlemode fiber-optic cabling is more costly than deploying short-wavelength optics and multimode fiber-optic cabling. However, over the past few years, the price of long-wave optics has fallen, bringing them close to parity with short-wave optics.
Long-wavelength optical networking brings singlemode fiber into data centers
