[115125] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Eye protection in DWDM systems -- what threshold?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Tue Jun 9 16:08:42 2009
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:06:58 -0400
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090609182654.GA2311@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Reply-To: deepak@ai.net
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Leo Bicknell wrote:
> In a message written on Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 01:06:42PM -0500, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Save your poor techs eyes, and make them more reliable all at the same
> time:
>
> http://search.newport.com/?sku=F-IRC2-F
>
This conversation has gone places I didn't expect. Leo, that card is
pretty cool, but for a few hundred $$ more, you can get a light meter
(if someone is smart enough to use the card...)
Does anyone *use* any eye protection (other that not looking at the
light, turning off the light etc) -- I mean like protective goggles,
etc, when doing simple things like adding/removing patch cables from an
SMF patch panel.
I get that if you *know* the gear you are using has a Class 3 laser on
it, you should be careful... but when you are patching it into a
building's cable plant and some schmuck is patching the last leg in for
you (or has pulled it accidentally, etc).. um, "don't look at it" is our
community's BCP?
DJ
