On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 02:18:28PM +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote: > On 01/04/2015 14:04, Łukasz Bromirski wrote: > > PoE over fibre? Nah, you must have had misunderstood the specs. > > actually the theory is sound. They're injecting at +70dBm per strand, > which gives about 18kW power-over-fibre output per pair. Some of the staff > members have been complaining that their remaining eye sockets are at risk, > but tbh that particular data centre was never too hot on fibre hygiene > anyway. No matter how often you tell people not to look directly into > fibre to see if it's been lit, there's always someone who knows better, sigh. > > As an added advantage, the B end of these PoF links are great for burning > out jammed cage nuts.
Yeah its legit. A Dutch ISP announced today they will start supplying electricity over the spare fiber strand of their FTTH deployment as a competitive alternative to the traditional grid. https://www.tweak.nl/nieuws/tweak-introduceert-elektriciteit-via-glasvezel.html (use google translate if necessary) _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
