> > If you can't get singlemode interfaces, use multimode interfaces, and use
> > a convertor box between multimode and singlemode fibre. I've just bought a
> > bunch of these from Blackbox.
>
> I used to do this until I reviewed a list of outages that we had
> over a 24 month period and found that in 70% of them, the convertor
> box was the cause of the outage :(
Ug. This is what I was trying to avoid - another point of failure.
Perhaps our best bet is to convince the other end to run some other
sort of cable. Heck it's only from one InterXion building to the
next.
Thanks,
Ray
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