I should never be allowed to use that machine. I'm a juvenile and I
would brand all of mine as "Adam's badass SFP model XXX"
------ Original Message ------
From: "Mark Radabaugh" <[email protected]>
To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <[email protected]>
Sent: 7/27/2018 2:37:00 PM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Tower Fiber
FlexOptix will give you the programmer for the SFP’s if you buy a
minimum lot of SFP's. They have profiles for all of the major
manufacturers that will tell the equipment it’s a branded SFP. For
the items they don’t have a profile for you just need one of the
manufacturers coded ones to suck the configuration out and blow it back
into a FlexOptix SFP. Works great. You can even have them modify a
profile for a SFP if you need to lie to the equipment about what it is
you installed - like a BIDI single mode pretending to be a standard
multimode.
German company but they ship Fedex overnight at reasonable cost.
Mark
On Jul 27, 2018, at 2:18 PM, [email protected] wrote:
That is the case with many if not most vendors that use SFPs.
Even back in the SONET days, Alcatel would not gracefully talk to
Fujitsu. They would talk but there were all kinds of alarms on both
ends.
-----Original Message----- From: Adam Moffett
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2018 11:36 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Tower Fiber
And the random SFP I tried a few years ago actually worked perfectly
fine by the way. The only difference was the Compact would toss
alarms
about it on a regularly schedule. So apparently you can use any SFP
as
long as you're willing to ignore the alarms.
-Adam
On 7/27/2018 1:32 PM, SmarterBroadband wrote:
Hi Adam
Telrad show two transceivers for Compacts on their Zendesk site. I
think this one is Single mode.
Finisar FTLF1321P1xTL
I have asked FS.com if they have a compatible module.
Adam
-----Original Message-----
From: AF [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Adam Moffett
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2018 3:19 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Tower Fiber
On 7/26/2018 5:56 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote:
On 7/26/18 2:50 PM, Mike Hammett wrote:
Save yourself the hassle and never use multimode for anything.
Multimode is always a mistake at some point in its lifetime.
Singlemode is forever.
Single mode is better in all cases.
The only reason for multimode was that the the transmitter for single
mode is a laser and lasers were expensive. Multimode uses LED
transmitters which were cheaper. VCSEL Lasers turned that upside
down and single mode is the cheaper one now. The fiber itself costs
about the same.
There are always exceptions. Last I knew the only "approved" SFP for
a Telrad Compact was a multimode one. The device will toss alarms if
you put in any other SFP module.
....and I'll grant you that I last tried a 3rd party SFP about 2
years ago, so this could have changed, but it was definitely true in
2015 & 2016. So all of our Compacts have a multimode fiber cable.
Cest La Vie.
It was also the case that SFPs with industrial temperature spec were
cheaper in multimode. I'm not sure if that's still true, but it was
for awhile.
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