10Base-FL

From: pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com <(pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com)>
Date: Thu Feb 6 18:06:00 2003

On Feb 5, 5:38, vance_at_neurotica.com wrote:
> I'm about to put some 10Base-FL in and I was wondering if someone
could
> tell me what kind of fiber I should be looking for? Is it 50/125 MMF
like
> GigE? Or is it 62.5/125 MMF like FDDI?

It will work fine with either. In theory, you get slightly higher
coupling losses with 50/125 but can run slightly longer lengths; in
practice it makes little difference. My advice is to stick to one kind
or the other for everything.

York Uni has always used 50/125 for everything (from the original FDDI
and FOIRL through ATM and now 100baseFX and 1000baseSX) -- and we're
smiling now that it's come back into vogue. BTW, stick to ST
connectors where you can. SMAs suck big time, and couplers for STs are
expensive.

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York
Received on Thu Feb 06 2003 - 18:06:00 GMT

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