Dispersion compensation module - https://www.fs.com/products/65783.html

From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Ken Hohhof
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2024 3:53 PM
To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' <af@af.afmug.com>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] optical TX power levels

I spent a few minutes searching on the term DCM and came up with “chirped fiber 
Bragg grating”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_Bragg_grating

OK, I’m out of my depth now.


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Daniel Pautz via AF
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Subject: Re: [AFMUG] optical TX power levels

Perhaps pick up a used cheap DCM and see if it helps,  adjustable  preferred if 
not as close to the fiber distance.   Our newest 100G dwdm build (dozen 100G 
optics) very much needed a DCM on it.

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Subject: Re: [AFMUG] optical TX power levels

Gotta think of the Fourier series of the pulse.  Yes group velocities or group 
delay of the whole enchalada.  It is all kinda the same thing.  They were doing 
some kind of soliton fiber development.  Haven’t heard much for some time about 
that.  No idea how frequency pure/coherent the tx is.  I imagine phase 
coherency is a big deal.



From: Ken Hohhof
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2024 4:12 PM
To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group'
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] optical TX power levels

Looks like different wavelengths have different group velocities, so 
compensation is possible (but probably not cheap?).

Is this because the transmitter doesn’t generate literally a single wavelength? 
 Or is this a WDM issue?  Chuck says the pulses get smeared out in time, that 
sounds like the first one.

From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com<mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com>> On Behalf Of 
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Yeah, the pulses tend to get smeared out in time if there is too much 
dispersion.  Similar to trying to use too high level of QAM with SNR issues.

From: Josh Luthman
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2024 12:26 PM
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Even if the RX level is good?

> rx was within 0.3dBm on all 4 lanes on both sides

On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 1:22 PM Daniel Pautz via AF 
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Yeah makes me think the two paths have different loss.   We have had that on 
mirrored paths,  or even single paths with crappy splices on one of the strands.

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Did anyone do dispersion testing on the fiber?

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From: Zach Underwood
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2024 12:07 PM
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Subject: Re: [AFMUG] optical TX power levels

tired again this morning and still no link. rx was within 0.3dBm on all 4 lanes 
on both sides. We got 10gb 80km to link up. This will do for now. We will be 
looking at getting 40gb 80km single lane optics or adding another site to fiber 
loop to shorten the footage to under 40km.

On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 11:14 AM Colin Stanners 
<cstann...@gmail.com<mailto:cstann...@gmail.com>> wrote:
So both of those SFPs are within the tx power range.

100G may not work on a link that long unless you have dispersion compensation 
fiber on the path or in a huge loop in a box style at one end.

You likely cannot change tx power levels on those SFPs, they will run at the 
max they can do for that specific unit.

On Wed, Jan 24, 2024, 7:46 a.m. Zach Underwood 
<zunder1...@gmail.com<mailto:zunder1...@gmail.com>> wrote:

TX Power   2~6.5dBm

I am struggling to get this 100gb link up. In the field this link is quoted at 
31 miles. The rx levels are -22 and -20 on both sides but I can't get it to 
link. I take the same optics to the lab and add 20dbm of attenuator to get 
almost the same rx levels as the field and it will link up.

I have added error-correction encoding reed-solomon per the user guide for 
links over 40km.

So far I have not found a way to change the TX levels in arista, the options 
are in the CLI but they dont seem to change the outcome. For me this is the 
first time dealing with 80km optics or 100gb optics over 10km.

switch is Arista DCS-7060SX2-48YC6-R

https://resource.fs.com/mall/doc/20230531114903y4ljxw.pdf
https://www.fs.com/products/115818.html?attribute=29032&id=3462585

On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 8:35 AM Colin Stanners 
<cstann...@gmail.com<mailto:cstann...@gmail.com>> wrote:
There should be. What does their datasheey indicate for tx power range?

On Wed, Jan 24, 2024, 7:31 a.m. Zach Underwood 
<zunder1...@gmail.com<mailto:zunder1...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Yep labels identical but there is a difference in default power levels.

On Wed, Jan 24, 2024, 8:13 AM Mike Hammett 
<af...@ics-il.net<mailto:af...@ics-il.net>> wrote:
Oh, meaning the variance between the two, otherwise identical models?


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