I do small business installs, and this one is a fibre service handed off on an ADVA FSP 150-GE102Pro. The customer wants the WAN terminated on their own router instead of the carrier box, so it has to land in the SFP+ cage of a MikroTik RB4011iGS+. Nobody told me what fibre the service actually…
Putting a fibre run between two comms rooms in the same building and using a pair of TRENDnet TFC-1000MSC converters (1000BASE-T to 1000BASE-SX) to bridge it. Copper side goes straight into the switches we already have, nothing unusual in the config. TRENDnet TFC-1000MSC at each end, each on its…
Small office, one leased line, and the carrier terminated it on an ADVA FSP150CP screwed to the wall of the comms cupboard. My job is to get our own router onto that circuit instead of renting one from them, so the ix0 SFP+ port of a Netgate XG-7100 goes straight ino the ADVA access port. Netgate…
The poster needed to connect a MikroTik CRS328-4C-20S-4S+RM to an HP 1820-24G-PoE+ over 200-500 m of outdoor aerial fibre and asked which SFP modules to buy and how to verify compatibility before purchase. The HP compatibility table listed only J4859C as a single-mode SFP, while MikroTik offered…
The postter had an existing multimode fibre run of about 200 m that could not be replaced and only single-moode SFP modules available. The question was whether a 1G single-mode SFP pair would establish a stable link over multimode fibre, and what the practical limits were. The thread also raised…
