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Re: Hi-Rise Building Fiber Suggestions


From: Simon Leinen <simon.leinen () switch ch>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 20:36:50 +0100

Randy Bush writes:
since we're at this layer, should i worry about going 3m with dacs at
low speed, i.e. 10g?  may need to do runs to neighbor rack.

No, 3m is totally fine for passive DAC, never had any issues with those.
(5m should also be fine, we just have less experience with that because
most we use DAC mostly for server/ToR cabling, usually using QSFP(28) to
SFP+/SFP28 break-out cables.)
-- 
Simon.


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