In some enterprise applications, SX is "good enough" for the distances at hand, and SX optics are cheap... On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Pierre-Yves Maunier <nanog@maunier.org>wrote:
2012/1/26 George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com>
SX can actually be a little more versatile. LX works only over single mode fiber. SX is designed to work over either. As long as you have SX
at
both ends, you can connect them with either single or multimode fiber as long as the fiber type is consistent over the entire run.
It's the contrary. SX only works on multimode fibre, not on singlemode.
LX can work on both.
It can happends that SX works on singlemode but it can fail anytime.
LX over multimode fibre is documented on Cisco SFP/GBICs datasheets.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/modules/ps4999/products_tech_note0918...
Cisco 1000BASE-LX/LH SFPGLC-LH-SM1SFP-GE-L2Operates on standard single-mode fiber-optic link spans of up to 10 km and up to 550 m on any multimode fibers.
-- Pierre-Yves Maunier