[AusNOG] Cable length limits?

[Greg McLennan]

 I'll agree with the 95% media converter. Out of that its usually 80%
the power-supply to the media converter has died or is producing some
weird voltage the MC cant deal with and appears to be running, but is
spewing randomness into the fiber/ether !

Greg.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Tonoli" 
To:"Jake Anderson" 
Cc:
Sent:Wed, 5 Mar 2014 10:01:59 +1100 (EST)
Subject:Re: [AusNOG] Cable length limits?

 > From: "Jake Anderson" 
 > Sent: Wednesday, 5 March, 2014 12:09:13 AM
 > Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Cable length limits?
 > Media converters can be had pretty cheap these days, I'd be looking
in
 > to perhaps running those if you are on a budget.
 > Otherwise put in smaller switches spread about the place with a
fibre
 > backbone.

 I don't know whether it's just me, but whenever I hear the term
"media converter", "single point of failure" comes to mind. My
experience is that when there are issues with a network link that has
a media converter somewhere, there's a 95% chance that the fault is in
the media converter. (perhaps it's just me).

 Peter.
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 Peter Tonoli < peter at medstv.unimelb.edu.au > +61-3-9288-2399 
 IT Manager 
 The University of Melbourne - Eastern Hill Academic Centre, St.
Vincent's Institute and O'Brien Institute 
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