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Re: Muni Fiber and Politics


From: William Herrin <bill () herrin us>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 18:43:32 -0400

On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Owen DeLong <owen () delong com> wrote:
True, but if your end-to-end loop tester sees a good path, you
can be pretty sure that the pair is clean end-to-end.

You'd be surprised. I recently dealt with a gentleman who built his
campus fiber plant expecting to configure end-to-end fiber paths using
mechanical connectors along the way. "Maximum acceptable loss on a
fiber segment is anound 10db, right, so with each of these 6 segments
in the threes we should be OK right? Well hold on, let me go to the
next building and clean the connector."

Regards,
Bill Herrin


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