Pad 1310nm cross-connects?

Sun Oct 20 05:06:31 UTC 2013

On Sat, 19 Oct 2013, Chris Costa wrote:

> median RX range to avoid potential receiver burnout over time, or just 
> leave it un-padded?

By "padding", you mean "insert attenuator"?

I have run networks with thousands of 10km optical links (1GBASE-LX, 
10GBASE-LR) and none of them have used attenuators for these kinds of 
links, not even with 1m cable.

The discussion has been had here before, some attenuate, some don't. There 
is no consensus.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se