by ELIZABETH GOLDSMITH | Jan 16, 2020
Each ONT end device just requires one strand of single mode fiber. And the connectors typically used in passive optical LAN are SC/APC angle polish connectors. Note: some manufacturers now offer a way to leverage multimode fiber in applications where the fiber plant...
by ELIZABETH GOLDSMITH | Jan 17, 2019
The three most common MPO connector options are MPO-8, MPO-12 and MPO-24. MPO-8 is a legacy standard for the QSFPs, coming out of the transceivers running 40 Gigabit or 100 Gigabits. It is used for both multimode and singlemode transceivers and breakouts, but offers...
by ELIZABETH GOLDSMITH | Jan 17, 2019
In a leaf-spine architecture, a series of leaf switches form the access layer.These switches are fully meshed to a series of spine switches. Leaf-spine architectures are popular because they reduce the number of “hops” from server to server, which minimizes latency....
by ELIZABETH GOLDSMITH | Jan 17, 2019
Yes, there are several differences. First, the PON power meter is a pass through device which measures the power of the downstream signal and the power of the upstream signal. A regular power meter is a single ended detector, so you can measure the downstream power,...
by ELIZABETH GOLDSMITH | Jan 17, 2019
PON is the general concept of Passive Optical Networking, which refers to the use of splitter typologies in point to multipoint technologies where one fiber is split out to multiple endpoints. GPON is the 2.5 Gbps Passive Optical Network, while NG-PON is in general,...
