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Re: High Density Multimode Runs BCP?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lesher)
Wed Jan 26 22:23:07 2005

From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu (nanog list)
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 22:22:39 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.58.0501261345380.28219@noc1.fas.harvard.edu> from "Scott McGrath" at Jan 26, 2005 01:48:54 PM
Reply-To: wb8foz@nrk.com
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered:
> 
> 
> 
> Look into MPO cabling
> 
> MPO uses fiber ribbon cables the most common of which is 6x2
> six strands by two layers

I've helped deploy/retrieve MBO at the recent IETF at the
Hinckley Hilton here in DC. It's not Mil-Spec sturdy but 
with reasonable care, it does the job.


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Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433
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