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Re: Eye protection in DWDM systems -- what threshold?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard A Steenbergen)
Tue Jun 9 14:07:32 2009

Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 13:06:42 -0500
From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
To: Jeff Kell <jeff-kell@utc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4A2E911D.4030506@utc.edu>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 12:43:09PM -0400, Jeff Kell wrote:
> Reminds me of the old warning/attention sign over a termination rack...
> 
>    WARNING:  Do not look into laser with remaining eye.

The only problem with those funny signs is they scare remote hands techs 
into never looking at a fiber because they don't want to try and 
understand the difference between a SX GBIC and a class 3 ultra longhaul 
amp.

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