BIDI means you are using one fiber strand.   Otherwise it’s 2 fibers, one for 
transmit and the other for receive. 

It’s not black magic - but you do need to have some knowledge of what you are 
doing.

Mark

> On Oct 20, 2020, at 7:18 AM, Matt Hoppes <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Is there a reason there isn’t more a standard for the optics that go with 
> fiber?
> 
> It seems any time a cut over is done there’s always the question: which optic 
> are you using?  Bi-Di or not ?  Then some equipment only supports certain 
> optics. 
> 
> Twice now we’ve tried to do 1gig to 10gig wave upgrades with our providers 
> (some large country wide names) and it’s taken multiple attempts because of 
> optic issues. 
> 
> Copper - you just plug it in and it works. Why have we not gotten to this 
> point with fiber?
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