Optics and Optical Networking

cisco 6500 series supervisor card

I am to plan and roll out a fibre network across london for my company. We require fibre router / switch at our at our 2 data centre. These will have lots of space for use to slot in cards for whatever puspose we need, single / mutimode fibre, dark ...

DS3 Fiber Optic Modem

I need to extend a demarc for a T3 for ~= 1 km and would like to use a FOM solution. I have both SM and MM fiber available and I think I would like to utilize the MM given that this is a relatively short distance. SNMP fault polling and trap genera...

which Gigabit transceiver module need to used to connecting 2 core switches located at different building about 2 Km distance

Hi Guys,I am faced with the challenge of connecting 2 core switches located at different building about 2 Km distance from to each other. I choose to have on one end, the core switch WS-C3750-24TS-E and the other end with same core switch WS-C375...

Password Recovery for MDS 9124

We've been trying to recover the admin password on our two MDS 9124 fiber channel switches using this documentation from Cisco: http://goo.gl/xeyZvHas anyone done this successfully? When I hit step 10 to "load bootflash:IMAGE.bin" after changing the...

Provision Error on Fan-Out-Groups Deletion

CPT600 running with CTCR95. There are 3 FOGs,Group ID 39 - FOG39 - Ten GE Port 1 of Slot2 PTM-4 card and Ten GE Port 2 of Slot2 PTM-4 cardGroup ID 37 - FOG37 - Ten GE Port 1 of Slot4 PTF-4 card and Ten GE Port 2 of Slot4 PTF-4 cardGroup ID 38 - FOG3...

Single mode transmission over MMF

Does the 10Gigabit Ehternet over multimode fiber (mode conversion cables, etc.) protocol support fiber runs in excess of 2km?Does Cisco have a postion on its hardware and MMF lengths?Has anyone tested this orknow of a paper on the subject?

Resolved! Interface status when connected to an ADM?

I have a couple of quick questions, maybe someone can help me with them.These are the facts:- I have a fiber optic running about 20km between two sites.- On one end I have an ASR1006 with a SIP-10G and in one of its sub-slots it has a SPA-5x1GE. This...

2F BLSR cannot clear lockout

Greetings.I have a 2F-BLSR and I upgraded from TCCs to TCC2s. All went well until I went to remove my locks from the spans, but it just locks up the whole network in that I have to reset (physically or manually) the TCC cards to get back to CTC!I can...

2 SAN FABRIC 20Km

Hi ExpertsI want to connect two san fabric switch away from each other 20KM using a dedicated fiber in order to replicate san traffic , question is what transceiver on san fabric should i use to terminate the fiber cable coming from the MUX ,is S...

SFP-10G-LR and conditioning patch cord

Hello,I would like to know if it's possible to use SFP-10G-LR with a conditioning patch cord ?In fact wa have to deploy 10 Gb, but we dont have any information on the FO, so we have to figure the worst case: old SMF.It seems not, but I would like to ...

About ME 3400 series switches

Is there any documentation which product comes with empty SFP/GBIC slots and which full? Actually I interested with ME-3400-24FS-A model.I need SFP module 10/100 with SC connector type (20 km) which works on a single mode. Can anyone advise me which ...

LAN Phy or WAN Phy?

Hi All,Can someone please clarify the difference between 10Gbps LAN Phy and WAN Phy?Is there is a preference between using either/or?

allowable path loss between Cisco XENPAK-10GB-LR & HP BLc 10Gb

Greetings All!How much attenuation loss should be allowed (upper & lower range) for 10Gb link between Cisco XENPAK-10GB-LR & HP BLc 10Gb?Thanks. Regards,

10GE -LR over multimode

Hello team!Is it possible that the SFP-10G-LR will work with multimode fiber?I totaly understand that this actualy depends on cable type and lenght, but I do not have this information right now.So, if someone have succes or bad story I am happy to li...