In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott Mace writes: >A repeater or regen goes optical-electrical-optical. I think you are >talking about an EDFA. While it may pass light when it's down, one >has to take into account the optical budget of the span.
Sorry for sloppy terminology here :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.