On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 10:45:22PM -0400, John R. Sosebee <sosebee@bellsouth.net> wrote:
some flava's of the GSR will show/report this .. under show controller but cisco says it's +_ 5 dbm .. they say .. ' You want a router or a meter ? " I have to agree .. would want not the expense of this added in.
Cool, upon further discussion with hardware guys, most of this functionality is being built into the 3rd party optical components these days, so all the vendor has to do is augment the CLI to pass this data through. If the capability is there, why not use it? I must say it would be cool to graph dBm over months/years in Cricket, and see if you could spot fiber degradation. However, as you point out, it is important for vendors to document the accuracy of the readings in their spec sheets. +/-5 dBm sounds a bit lame. As I understand, these components split off about 2% of the light to take the optical power readings. Don't know if any of them can measure reflection to get distance as well? -Lane
POS3/0 SECTION LOF = 0 LOS = 0 BIP(B1) = 0 LINE AIS = 0 RDI = 0 FEBE = 0 BIP(B2) = 0 PATH AIS = 5 RDI = 6 FEBE = 387 BIP(B3) = 6389 LOP = 5 NEWPTR = 0 PSE = 0 NSE = 0
Framing: SONET APS
Optical Power Monitoring Rx optical power in mWs and dBms Port 0 = 0.02 mW, - 15.738 dBm
Tx laser diode forward bias current I(F) in milliamps Port 0 = 18.009 mA
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