Re: Benefits (and Detriments) of Standardizing Network Equipment in a Global Organization

2016-12-27 Thread Nolan Berry
System automation and life cycle management is exponentially easier when you have uniform environments. I am in the process of standardizing global infrastructure and developing the automation process now. Nolan From: NANOG on behalf of valdis.kletni...@vt.edu

RE: DWDM on 250 Km dark fiber without re-amplification

2016-12-27 Thread Robert Jacobs
Polarization and dispersion will come into play at these distances if you plan on running a DWDM system. In that world you get what you pay for as a rule. The more expensive gear is more forgiving to fiber that is not 100 % up to high quality. Most small one or two RU gear from all the vendor

Re: Benefits (and Detriments) of Standardizing Network Equipment in a Global Organization

2016-12-27 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 03:36:10PM -0500, Chris Grundemann wrote: > If you have a case study, lesson learned, data point, or even just a strong > opinion; I'd love to hear it! I think the high level items are pretty clear here: 1 Vendor Quicker/easier to implement, staff on

Re: DWDM on 250 Km dark fiber without re-amplification

2016-12-27 Thread Eric Kuhnke
You will want to request an OTDR characterization of the dark fiber path from its owner. If you can post OTDR "shots" with full resolution images in a lossless image format to the list, we may be able to take a guess if the distance is feasible without amplification inline. For equipment choices y

Re: DWDM on 250 Km dark fiber without re-amplification

2016-12-27 Thread Josh Galvez
Jeremy, SmartOptics is one such vendor that I've used in the past that may be able to do this. http://www.smartoptics.com/ -Josh On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 10:41 AM, Brian R wrote: > I have to agree with Brandon. I have not worked with Ciena equipment > directly but have work with carriers that

Re: DWDM on 250 Km dark fiber without re-amplification

2016-12-27 Thread Brian R
I have to agree with Brandon. I have not worked with Ciena equipment directly but have work with carriers that use it. I worked with Adtran on this kind of setup and like Brandon said they require a lot of information to build what is needed for each specific run (fiber type, quality, wave len