[AusNOG] Cisco GBIC - Mikrotik SFP Fibre Cable Information

[Nathan Brookfield]

You will find that most Cisco coded optics will work fine as well, we've got a few Ausoptic SFP's doing CWDM in these devices and they work well.

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From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of John Edwards
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 3:49 PM
To: Thomas Jackson
Cc: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Cisco GBIC - Mikrotik SFP Fibre Cable Information

If someone offers you a choice, choose singlemode fibre. Future-you or his successor will be thankful.

John

On 18 February 2015 at 14:51, Thomas Jackson <thomas at thomax.com.au> wrote:
> You’ll need to speak to your provider to find out what wavelength they 
> are expecting and then find an appropriate SFP for the Mikrotik to 
> match. Duxtel have a few Mikrotik branded options that are cheap and 
> do the job for more common installations – 850nm (multimode) and 
> 1310nm (singlemode) – plenty of places around to get more exotic ones if needed too.
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> The GBICs use dual SC connectors and your SFP should be dual LC, so 
> you’ll need an appropriate cable for that too. Something like [0] from 
> 4Cabling for example is likely to do the job (singlemode), they’ve got 
> multimode cables too – which type of cable you need depends on which 
> type of SFP/GBIC you are using.
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> [0]
> http://www.4cabling.com.au/lc-sc-os1-singlemode-fibre-optic-patch-lead
> .html
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> From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of 
> daniel at glovine.com.au
> Sent: Wednesday, 18 February 2015 2:52 PM
> To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
> Subject: [AusNOG] Cisco GBIC - Mikrotik SFP Fibre Cable Information
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> Hi Guys
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> Apologies for the disturbance, but I cant seem to find credible 
> documentation on what I need
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> Ive got a provider whom have a Cisco 6509 and are going to be 
> providing me a fibre handoff,  But I need a cable from the GBIC to a 
> SFP on a Mikrotik router
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> Any assistance would be greatly appreciated
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> Daniel
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