Reddit is wrong. Gasp. Connectors are loss, there is more loss in either one of the connectors than there is the single mode glass.
Between a switch/router in a rack what I see all the time is long (like 5/10/15 feet) cables and then put the slack in a loop along the posts. On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 1:19 PM TJ Trout <t...@voltbb.com> wrote: > 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 >> > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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