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Re: Long Distance Dark Fiber
From: Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:48:25 -0800
On Mar 11, 2011, at 7:50 AM, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
On 3/11/11 7:16 AM, Jeff Wheeler wrote:On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 9:25 AM, ML <ml () kenweb org> wrote:Would it be too crazy to buy a spool of fiber and splice the end of one pair to the next pair and so on? Won't be able to simulate 2200 miles of fiber but it'll be a long span.This is by no means crazy. If you visit a laboratory where gear is tested, you'll find exactly that -- spools of fiber which can be connected together (through whatever splicing or patching method is desired for the simulation) to give the desired span length. These usually look nicer than big spools of cable, and are even available in rack-mount enclosures with vendor logos. :)one does not however do 2200 miles of terrestrial fiber simulation without simulating regeneration as well.
You can, but, it requires electronic retiming of the fiber signal (fiber->ring buffer->configurable delay->fiber). I guess technically that simulates one iteration of regeneration to some extent, but, it certainly wouldn't represent a test of 2200 miles worth of analog regeneration of a digital signal. Owen
Current thread:
- Long Distance Dark Fiber nanog (Mar 09)
- Re: Long Distance Dark Fiber ML (Mar 11)
- Re: Long Distance Dark Fiber Jeff Wheeler (Mar 11)
- Re: Long Distance Dark Fiber Joel Jaeggli (Mar 11)
- Re: Long Distance Dark Fiber Owen DeLong (Mar 11)
- Re: Long Distance Dark Fiber Jeff Wheeler (Mar 11)
- Re: Long Distance Dark Fiber ML (Mar 11)