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xvf22
on Sept 30, 2018
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Optical...
Optical network surprises sometimes like when certain wavelengths on a cable will become unreliable due to damage but others work fine.
rwmj
on Sept 30, 2018
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Do the transceivers work around this (similar to what happens with DSL) or do you have to replace the whole fibre?
xvf22
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Hmm no I don't think so, the goal with multiplexing is to keep the streams separate so you can untangle them at the end since you're running multiple customers on a fiber. Losing a wavelength means less streams you can fit on it.
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