Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior

["Vinay Bannai" <bannai () pacbell net>]

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 () bakker net>
To: <nanog () merit edu>
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 3:23 PM
Subject: Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior


> * lane () 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 () 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.