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Re: [OT] NIC 1000Base-SX needed



Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 16 May 2011, Michelle Konzack wrote:

>>> I've never seen anyone bother with CWDM (dual-color: TX and RX in
>>> the same fiber) in 1000Base-SX, but it is possible.
 
>> OK, it seem to be CWDM.

> What is the connector?  You should never assume something is CWDM, a
> CWDM link (two sets of optics, one type A, the other type B) costs
> nearly 3x a normal solution with two sets of the same normal optics,
> and requires you to keep track of who needs type A, and who needs type
> B.

> It is never used 'in a whim' by anyone, least of all 3COM.  That's why
> it is so rare for 1000Base-SX.

> My guess is that you have MTRJ or something else like that, which
> looks like a single connector, but it has two optical paths.

It _is_ MTRJ. I just went to our stack of decommissioned 49xx here and
compared the part number Michelle gave for the addon module.

Quite common 10 years back, but mostly out of use today.

S°

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Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.


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