Optics and Optical Networking

Hi All, We are exploring a possibility to connect a 2.5G output from a DWDM node to 7600 router having a 10Gig xenpak module. Is this possible ?Any help is really appreciated Thanks RegardsAnantha Subramanian Natarajan

Hello,What should the connector type be on an optical patch cable to connect to MTRJ port? Male or Female?

I have a Catalyst 3560G and I want to use an SFP port whit an Fiber Channel.Do someone know what is the maximum data rate of the port?Can I get more than 1 Gbps?

I need some help on a fiber design project. I have fiber coming in from an ISP and need to put out a fiber backbone to connect to more thatn 30 locations. I need help with how you think about going about the way to do this, what i should do in the MD...

All,I just insert WS-X6582-2PA with 1 PA-POS-2OC3 and 1 PA-MC-8TE1 on Catalyst 6506. IOS version for the catalyst is 12.2(18)SXD5There is no error message, but alarm led for PA-POS-2OC3 is orange.Is it correct behavior of PA-POS-2OC3 or there is an e...

How I can monitor temperature of ONS 14545? There are getTemp.exe tool but it is not supported by 7.2 version firmware on the ONS...

Hi All,We have a presales case, where the partner is asking the difference between VS-S720-10G-3C and the WS-X6704-10GE linecard . He is asking from the perspective of the performance and features comparison. I would appreciate any information that ...

hey all,seems like a noob question but takes a long time with no answer ..., anyone knows where i can see the optic parameters of a SFP / GBIC on a cisco 6500 or 7200? i want to check Gain, loss, attenuation and other factors regarding optical interf...

We are running a 20 node, ONS-15454 SONET ring, OC-48, with XCVT and the E100T-12-G Ethernet cards in each node.One node currently has 3) STS-1 Ethernet circuits provisioned to it and we wanted to add 4)new STS-3c circuits. The first two were create...

Let me post the same issue to the Optical forum too:Hello,Here's the problem.There's one Juniper SSG 20 firewall with JX-SFP-1GE-SX multimode fiber interface (850nm) (which I can control) and I have to connect it to Cisco 4506 switch which has WS-X43...

I'm in a purchase project of a new Gigabit switch for my company.Currently my company has a "Catalyst 3560G-48TS". It has four additional ports called SFP that I supposed can be used to connect to another switch to constitute a sort of "backbone", ri...

We want to connect two sites that are 55km apart on single mode dark fibre optics cable.We want to achieve IP connection between the two site. Can We use MUX (e.g. RAD MUX with 12 ports) directly between the two sites considering the distance.The two...