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Re: Hi-Rise Building Fiber Suggestions


From: Coy Hile <coy.hile () coyhile com>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 11:19:37 -0500

On 2020-02-26 11:14, Randy Bush wrote:
We use plenty of multi-mode, but only in the data centre, between our
own kit, for racks within the same cage.

so you have to stock both single and multi?  hmmm

randy

I'd expect that from the ToR -> Servers would be MMF, but that other infrastructure cabling would be SMF. Even using aftermarket optics, putting single-mode transceivers in every server and access port would quickly become cost-prohibitive, would it not?

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Coy Hile
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