Eye protection in DWDM systems -- what threshold?

Richard A Steenbergen ras at e-gerbil.net
Tue Jun 9 18:06:42 UTC 2009


On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 12:43:09PM -0400, Jeff Kell wrote:
> Reminds me of the old warning/attention sign over a termination rack...
> 
>    WARNING:  Do not look into laser with remaining eye.

The only problem with those funny signs is they scare remote hands techs 
into never looking at a fiber because they don't want to try and 
understand the difference between a SX GBIC and a class 3 ultra longhaul 
amp.

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