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APC vs UPC?
- Subject: APC vs UPC?
- From: niels=nanog at bakker.net (Niels Bakker)
- Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 13:55:13 +0100
- In-reply-to: <CAPkb-7DrO5iHDptM_PA-XzZG=20S_3E-O6pQR5JE7Zw2Y9HmQw@mail.gmail.com>
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* baldur.norddahl at gmail.com (Baldur Norddahl) [Tue 23 Feb 2016, 14:25 CET]:
>SFP modules will generally have UPC connectors. You therefore need
>to use cables with UPC at one end and APC at the other end.
>
>If you use a APC-APC cable you will have 3-6 dB of optical loss. If
>it is a short connection and you are out of correct cables, it will
>usually work.
Don't connect APC to UPC. You will damage the fiber.
-- Niels.
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- APC vs UPC?
- From: lorell at hathcock.org (Lorell Hathcock)
- APC vs UPC?
- From: baldur.norddahl at gmail.com (Baldur Norddahl)