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Re: Pad 1310nm cross-connects?


From: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner () cluebyfour org>
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 12:13:06 -0400 (EDT)

On Sun, 20 Oct 2013, joel jaeggli wrote:

It's a pretty normal situation.  even with a 1-2m jumper I see light levels that are well below the maximum rx levels for 
10km optics. e.g. the max might be .5 and the actual readings are -1.4 - -2.7. our WDM terminals sit in the the adjacent racks to 
the pop routers so they're all like that.

ER/ZR is another matter.

Yes, ER/ZR must be attenuated unless the run is sufficiently long. We have a link that's a bit too long for LR, but we still had to attenuate because the ER optics were reporting excessively high receive levels.

jms


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