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Re: Gigabit Media Converter

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Tue Aug 12 08:54:06 2003

Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 14:53:32 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0308121332400.28811-100000@MrServer>
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On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:

> Ok well I'm not an optics expert but I wasnt aware multimode was capable of 
> carrying more than a single wavelength because of interference/dispersion 
> effects etc

It doesnt. From my understanding the initial poster wanted to turn a GE
CWDM (for instance, 1570nm light) single wavelength signal into a
multimode (50nm) GE signal.

That's what I answered to anyway.

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se




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