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? > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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