Re: Suggestion on Fiber tester

2013-09-27 Thread Jeff Kell
On 9/26/2013 6:53 AM, Justin M. Streiner wrote: > What flavor of multimode fiber are you dealing with? The answer and > the distance you can run becomes substantially more important at 10G. > > Hopefully you're at least dealing with OM3. OM1/OM2 imposes distance > limitations and you'll likely ne

RE: Suggestion on Fiber tester

2013-09-27 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Thu, 26 Sep 2013, Blake Pfankuch - Mailing List wrote: To follow up, all of this fiber is mm and all light is sx to sfp. Currently all 1gbit, but it will be repulled as 10gbit capable soon... I guess I'm going to have to be a little less cheap and shoot for something under $1000. I had an

Re: Suggestion on Fiber tester

2013-09-26 Thread Carlos Alcantar
...@race.com / http://www.race.com -Original Message- From: Chuck Anderson Date: Thursday, September 26, 2013 10:52 AM To: "nanog@nanog.org" Subject: Re: Suggestion on Fiber tester On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 02:23:37AM +, Blake Pfankuch - Mailing List wrote: > I am in t

Re: Suggestion on Fiber tester

2013-09-26 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 02:23:37AM +, Blake Pfankuch - Mailing List wrote: > I am in the market for a simple fiber tester. I have about 80 pairs running > through my complex and we are running into some possible issues with some of > the really old ones. The pen light to confirm that it's t

RE: Suggestion on Fiber tester

2013-09-26 Thread Kate Gerry
If you're looking for cheap then go for a RY3200C, it retails for around $140. Kate

Re: Suggestion on Fiber tester

2013-09-26 Thread Niels Bakker
Welp. Not my duplicate (Received: headers show it happened inside the nanog mailing list server). Already asked them to investigate. -- Niels.

Re: Suggestion on Fiber tester

2013-09-26 Thread Niels Bakker
* blake.mailingl...@pfankuch.me (Blake Pfankuch - Mailing List) [Thu 26 Sep 2013, 05:28 CEST]: To follow up, all of this fiber is mm and all light is sx to sfp. Currently all 1gbit, but it will be repulled as 10gbit capable soon... I guess I'm going to have to be a little less cheap and shoot

Re: Suggestion on Fiber tester

2013-09-26 Thread Steven Hill
On Thu, 26 Sep 2013, Blake Pfankuch - Mailing List wrote: (snip) $1000 You might get a JDSU OLP meter for that sort of money... http://www.jdsu.com/en-us/test-and-measurement/products/a-z-product-list/Pages/olp-smart.aspx I've used one of theirs (and a matching source) for buzzing out links

RE: Suggestion on Fiber tester

2013-09-25 Thread Blake Pfankuch - Mailing List
PM To: Blake Pfankuch - Mailing List Cc: NANOG (nanog@nanog.org) Subject: Re: Suggestion on Fiber tester On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:23 PM, Blake Pfankuch - Mailing List wrote: > I am in the market for a simple fiber tester. I have about 80 pairs running > through my complex and we are runnin

Re: Suggestion on Fiber tester

2013-09-25 Thread Darius Jahandarie
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:23 PM, Blake Pfankuch - Mailing List wrote: > I am in the market for a simple fiber tester. I have about 80 pairs running > through my complex and we are running into some possible issues with some of > the really old ones. The pen light to confirm that it's the righ

Suggestion on Fiber tester

2013-09-25 Thread Blake Pfankuch - Mailing List
I am in the market for a simple fiber tester. I have about 80 pairs running through my complex and we are running into some possible issues with some of the really old ones. The pen light to confirm that it's the right strand is going to require a little bit more insight to determine if there