> Aerial fiber with a messenger. When they closed our office, the one that had all the testing labs in it, I scored a few of the longer fiber runs from the aerial trays this stuff was laid in. I thought that if I ever needed some longer high-speed runs that it might be useful, otherwise I think the stuff was all destined for the dumpster. (They did salvage the 10km fiber spools used for longer-distance signal testing.)
At the time, the SFP's (and the homes to put them in) were more significant. I also scored some of those, from the gear we made. 12-port gigabit switches, two of them SFP's. (One of these is in every AT&T cell tower in the USA. Or was.) Never used the stuff. And the 10(12) port managed switch has some issues, I'm now using a 24-port unmanaged switch, which is a lot less trouble. It is NOT code/legal to run copper signaling between buildings. Anything with its own ground. > I can buy pre-terminated multi-mode fiber for under $200. A 50m length of terminated fiber is $18 from Amazon. -- Jim _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
