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Re: Inside plant 10G fiber specs?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Sun Mar 14 15:22:42 2010

Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:22:16 -0700
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4B9D2815.6070000@utc.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On 3/14/10 11:16 AM, Jeff Kell wrote:
> 10G over 50u/MM looks better, depending on the "modal bandwidth" of the
> fiber (66m, 82m, 300m).

Yep, that last one would be the "laser optimized" variant. You won't be
excluding 1G optics by using laser optimized fiber, but you need it to
get the same reach on 10G.

~Seth


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