Along these lines, but slightly off topic, what kind of light meters
do you guys use?
Shane
On Sep 25, 2009, at 10:50 AM, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 10:15:16AM -0400, Stefan Fouant wrote:
It's expensive to put dB meters on every optical interface, and
since these
are cheap commodity based switches those capabilities most likely
do not
exist. That most likely explains the reason you did not see any
output in
the 9.2 release, which they finally decided to remove altogether
from future
versions. As Richard mentioned, you'll have DOM for 10GE
interfaces, but
not the GE. You get what you pay for... ;)
Actually a lot of optics that have been manufactured over the last few
years have DOM support built in. Sometimes the lower end optics don't
support it (1GE SX and LX), but for the most part you'd be hard
pressed
to find a long reach or DWDM optic for 1GE, or a LR/ER/ZR/DWDM optic
for
10GE, manufactured in the last 5 years that doesn't support it. All
the
host board has to do is query the information from the optic using the
low speed control interface, so it is a bit surprising that some older
host boards didn't support this. For example, Cisco 6748-SFP doesn't,
but the older generation 6716-GBIC does, go figure.
I'm not saying that EX will never do DOM for 1GE, I don't know that
one
way or another and given the newness of the product I would actually
be
very surprised if the hardware doesn't support it. All I can tell
you is
that 10.0 DOM on EX for 1GE LX doesn't work, and DOM for 10GE LR does.
It's possible that this is just a limitation of the optics Juniper is
shipping with the EX, I honestly don't do enough GE to have any better
optics to test any more. :)
Physical interface: ge-2/0/46
Optical diagnostics : N/A
FWIW this was high on our list of requirements for EX to implement.
Once
you start using DOM for everything you just can't go back to trying to
diagnose things with techs and light meters.
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