On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
True, but if your end-to-end loop tester sees a good path, you can be pretty sure that the pair is clean end-to-end.
You'd be surprised. I recently dealt with a gentleman who built his campus fiber plant expecting to configure end-to-end fiber paths using mechanical connectors along the way. "Maximum acceptable loss on a fiber segment is anound 10db, right, so with each of these 6 segments in the threes we should be OK right? Well hold on, let me go to the next building and clean the connector." Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin ................ herrin@dirtside.com bill@herrin.us Owner, Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/> Can I solve your unusual networking challenges?