[138663] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Long Distance Dark Fiber
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Fri Mar 11 18:49:39 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <4D7A44D1.3030609@bogus.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:48:25 -0800
To: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mar 11, 2011, at 7:50 AM, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> On 3/11/11 7:16 AM, Jeff Wheeler wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 9:25 AM, ML <ml@kenweb.org> wrote:
>>> Would it be too crazy to buy a spool of fiber and splice the end of =
one pair
>>> to the next pair and so on? Won't be able to simulate 2200 miles of =
fiber
>>> but it'll be a long span.
>>=20
>> This is by no means crazy. If you visit a laboratory where gear is
>> tested, you'll find exactly that -- spools of fiber which can be
>> connected together (through whatever splicing or patching method is
>> desired for the simulation) to give the desired span length. These
>> usually look nicer than big spools of cable, and are even available =
in
>> rack-mount enclosures with vendor logos. :)
>=20
> one does not however do 2200 miles of terrestrial fiber simulation
> without simulating regeneration as well.
>=20
>=20
You can, but, it requires electronic retiming of the fiber signal
(fiber->ring buffer->configurable delay->fiber).
I guess technically that simulates one iteration of regeneration
to some extent, but, it certainly wouldn't represent a test of
2200 miles worth of analog regeneration of a digital signal.
Owen
