I do not work at that school on a regular basis. The fiber was broke during a massive snowstorm Dec 18th, 2009. For whatever reason, the school administration did not work through my boss to have this fixed. They hired an outside contractor. Last week my boss asked me have a look at the fiber run. That is how this landed on my desk.
If it were up to me, I would shoot wireless across the parking lot and be done with it. Shane ________________________________ From: Joseph Heaton [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 5:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Fiber splice question Umm... how are you just now finding out about this, if it was done so long ago? Did they just now notice that whatever was going across that line isn't working anymore? >>> Thomas Mullins <[email protected]> 10/5/2011 11:14 AM >>> Thanks Jonathan, This splice was made some time ago, months ago and maybe even a year. The local school is probably just out the money. Shane From: Jonathan [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 7:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Fiber splice question +1 Cisco makes them, but I've never seen one from anywhere else. They are intended to go from a terminated fiber end to a transceiver of the alternate type. My understanding is that the fiber has to be offset very specifically for it to work....not something I would consider very practical in the field....it may not even be possible outside of a lab/manufacturing environment.....not sure. I've successfully installed both multimode and singlemode fiber. It sounds like whoever did that work didn't have a clue what they were doing and a refund or rework should be demanded. I'd even use the responses from this list as ammunition. Jonathan A+, MCSA, MCSE Thumb-typed from my HTC Droid Incredible (and yes, it really is) on the Verizon network. Please excuse brevity and any misspellings. On Oct 3, 2011 10:25 PM, "Ben Scott" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Thomas Mullins > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> The original piece of fiber was multimode. The local school had an outside >> company splice the damaged section. This company made the splice with >> single mode fiber. > > As others have said, (1) that won't work, and (2) never use that > company for fiber work again. > > It is possible to go from one type to the other, *if* you use > something called a "mode conditioning cable", but I don't recall if > you can go back again, and mode conditioning cables aren't used in > splices. > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
