[120746] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: dark fiber and sfp distance limitations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Fri Jan 1 20:11:47 2010
In-Reply-To: <4B3E9220.6020307@kenweb.org>
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 20:10:59 -0500
From: William Herrin <herrin-nanog@dirtside.com>
To: ML <ml@kenweb.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 7:24 PM, ML <ml@kenweb.org> wrote:
> Pardon my ignorance in this area but is too much to ask for OTDR data bef=
ore
> signing contracts? =A0In addition to data on the make of the fiber if you
> wanted to do xWDM in the future.
Yes, it's too much to ask. They won't splice your path until you sign
the contracts and you can't get useful OTDR and loss readings until
the fiber is spliced.
You can probably put an escape clause in the contract that lets you
exit with little or no cost if the readings aren't good enough after
the fact. If you're not time-constrained, you can probably request a
pre-check for a modest fee after main splicing but before trenching to
your endpoints.
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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