[149023] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: LX sfp minimum range
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pierre-Yves Maunier)
Fri Jan 27 11:48:03 2012
In-Reply-To: <4F22D4B0.8000803@its.msstate.edu>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:47:27 +0100
From: Pierre-Yves Maunier <nanog@maunier.org>
To: Steven Tardy <sjt5@its.msstate.edu>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
2012/1/27 Steven Tardy <sjt5@its.msstate.edu>
> On 01/26/12 16:33, Pierre-Yves Maunier wrote:
>
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>> It can happends that SX works on singlemode but it can fail anytime.
>>
>> just because you can doesn't mean you should.
>
> we have experience multiple cases where LX-MMF-LX works great for 3-5+
> years...
> then one day no longer gets link. swapping to a different fiber pair
> restores link.
> can't remember SX-MMF-SX failing after years of service.
>
>
That's why I wrote 'but it can fail anytime' meaning, I strongly recommand
to NOT do it.
--
Pierre-Yves Maunier
