Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior

Tue Aug 24 22:38:49 UTC 2004

Also, some of the SFP vendors did not necessarily provide all the optical
power reading, transmit bias current, voltage, temperature etc few years
ago. Nowadays it is more common for the SFP vendors to provide this
information (and in a standard fashion) enabling system vendors to be more
"bold" about displaying these parameters from their CLI/management systems.

Vinay Bannai
Luminous Networks

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Niels Bakker" <niels=nanog at bakker.net>
To: <nanog at merit.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 3:23 PM
Subject: Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior

>
> * lane at laneandmimi.com (Lane Patterson) writes:
> >> Can't wait until more routers start to incorporate inline optical
> >> power readings in "show interface" commands the way Procket did :-)
>
> * deepak at ai.net (Deepak Jain) adds:
> > Don't SFPs provide this sort of optical digital diagnostics?
>
> Yes, but hardly any vendor provides ways to extract this highly useful
> information from the hardware.
>
> I think the Cat6.5k does.  The Foundry MG8 shows you the serial #'s of
> inserted SFPs and XENPAKs in `show media'; useful in a different way.
>
>
> -- Niels.