Patchbox makes some great products, their fiber system is pretty slick but expensive.
Cable length is irrelevant it's optical budget / Rx signal strength. Normally on 2-20k LR optics you are ok with any length cable, 40km+ needs a pad on short spans. (Attenuator) On Mon, Aug 26, 2024, 8:29 AM Ken Hohhof <khoh...@kwom.com> wrote: > Is there a minimum length for a single mode fiber patch cable? > > > > I have been using 1 meter cables and they are almost always too long, I’m > talking about going between routers and switches in a rack, stuff like > that. I see that FS sells 0.5 meter cables, but I saw somewhere like maybe > on Reddit someone claiming there was a minimum length. Given SM fiber and > LR optics, I don’t see how 0.5 or 1.0 meter would be different they are > both essentially zero length. > > > > Probably there’s some kind of cable tray or cable management solution I > could be using but I’ve never liked such things. > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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