We had one do that in a splice case a few weeks back. Just decided to break all by itself. Maybe temperature or vibrations did it. Very visible fault with the VFL.
Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 23, 2021, at 7:56 AM, Nate Burke <n...@blastcomm.com> wrote: > > If I didn't diagnose it, I wouldn't have believed it. 1M SM fiber Patch > cable installed in a rack between router and a switch. Link went down at > exactly noon. Router had no link, switch showed link. Replaced both SFP's > with no change. Reversed patch cable and link came up. Put back to > original, no link. Threw that cable in the garbage and put in a new one. I > have a camera looking at the front of this rack. Nothing moved when the link > went down, I can see the link light turn off on the router when it failed. > > I never would have believed a fiber patch cable would just up and fail with > no external force. > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
