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I guess I mis-read Chiyoung's shorthand, i.e., "giga fiber", which I took to mean beaucoup fibers. Please excuse the noise. Frank A. Coluccio DTI Consulting Inc. 212-587-8150 Office 347-526-6788 Mobile On Fri Nov 30 11:43 , Sean Donelan sent: >On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, Frank Coluccio wrote: >> Unless I'm misreading the requirement, this >> sounds like a job for a Calient or a Glimmerglass >> optical switch, capable of non-intrusive bridging >> and/or insertion. For large jobs, in any case. >> >> A demo of the Glimmerglass device can be viewed >> on the company's "Government Signals Monitoring >> and Analysis" page: >> >> http://www.glimmerglass.com/defense.aspx > >This is probably bit more than would be needed for the apparent >application of monitoring a particular routing point for a LAN. A >simple passive fiber tap may be sufficient. > >An optical switch may be more suitable when you have large numbers of >sources and need to dynamically monitor a subset of different fibers >on a regular basis. Installing a switch is less useful if you need to >check a particular fiber on a permanent basis. > >Of course, if you already have an "optical DACS" in your network, then >it makes sense to use it instead of installing something else.
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