RE: Recommendations for a decent DWDM optical power meter.

[Timothy Kaufman <tkaufman () corp nac net>]

Correct me if I'm wrong but the solid optics power meter is just rebranded PPI?

Also what about a decent but reasonably priced OSA?
Suggestions?

Tim Kaufman


-----Original Message-----
From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces () nanog org] On Behalf Of Jeff Walter
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 8:02 PM
To: nanog () nanog org
Subject: Re: Recommendations for a decent DWDM optical power meter.

We also have a Solid Optics CWDM meter and it does the job quite nicely. It feels solid (haha...) and is relatively 
cheap.

--
Jeff Walter


On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Neil Davidson <neil () knd org> wrote:

> We have the Solid Optics DWDM and CWDM power meters. Simple, 
> inexpensive and works well ...
> http://www.solid-optics.com/category/cwdm-dwdm/power-meter ... n
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>
>
> --
>
> K. Neil Davidson
> +1-720-258-6345
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> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 2:45 PM, Tom Hill <tom () ninjabadger net> wrote:
>
> > On 28/07/14 19:33, Timothy Kaufman wrote:
> >
> > > Also maybe the ODPM-48.
> >
> > I've got the CWDM version of this, and it does the job. Haven't 
> > explored the test result downloading/archiving features (didn't 
> > expect them to
> work
> > with Linux anyway) but overall it was very helpful for measuring 
> > loss across various passive muxes (where DDM wasn't available).
> >
> > Tom