[j-nsp] optical amplifier recommendations?

[Andrew Fort]

On 11/10/05, Mark Prior <mrp at mrp.net> wrote:
> We have a small problem with the reach of the OC3/OC12 PICs in a M320
> in that we need to reach greater than 20km from our POP site to a
> submarine cable station across some dark fibre. Does anyone have any
> suggestions on optical amplifiers that play nice with the M320 PICs?
> We only need to amplify the signal from the Juniper as the SDH gear
> at the cable station can get light to us (we're currently using a
> Procket on the circuits and they usefully used SFP based optics).

Gday, Mark.

Our optical nerds say you might like to check out the Transition
SFMFF1316-210 (port one = 1300nm SC (2km), port two = 1310nm SC
(40km)).  These are "OC12 ATM / SDH" stand alone media converters. 
This should handle your S1.1 to L1.2 conversion requirements.

Not sure on compatibility with M320 PICs, but we've found their kit to
be pretty reliable/compatible with all our SDH/ATM equipment in the
past (Lucent/Nortel/Ericsson).

cheers,
-andrew