[148921] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: LX sfp minimum range
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Storandt)
Thu Jan 26 08:48:45 2012
In-Reply-To: <4F2108C4.4020706@bogus.com>
From: David Storandt <dstorandt@teljet.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:47:36 -0500
To: Joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
You can put a 3dB or 5dB optical pad on the link if the receiver can't
handle zero-distance optical power.
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 3:03 AM, Joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com> wrote:
> vendors that specify a minimum distance for lx typically spec 2 meters.
>
> even EX shouldn't spike the receiver at that distance as long as the max
> RX is about +1.
>
> On 1/25/12 11:26 , jon Heise wrote:
>> we are moving a router between 2 data centers and we only have LX sfp's for connection, is there any issue using LX sfp's in a short range deployment ?
>>
>
