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Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Thu Aug 26 01:09:47 2004

Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 07:08:58 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20040825215546.A29184@laneandmimi.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Lane Patterson wrote:

> the optical power readings.  Don't know if any of them can measure 
> reflection to get distance as well?

There are even some with simple OTDR functionality built into them, just
like there are some copper ethernet PHYs that also have this (CTDR).

<http://www.opticalzonu.com/products/P2P%20Gig%20Ethernet%20OTDR%20Transceivers.html>

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


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