[j-nsp] Do the old M-series fixed optic SONET/SDH PICs wear out?

[Phil Mayers]

On 15 March 2014 04:59:00 GMT+00:00, Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike at swm.pp.se> wrote:
>On Fri, 14 Mar 2014, Will Orton wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately I don't have a light meter. But I'm starting to think
>the 
>> transmitters might just be toast and not pushing enough light to
>present 
>> a usable signal to the other end even with only a 1m patch.
>
>... or they might be sending too much light for the receiver to handle.
>
>Try an attenuator 5 or 10 dB should do the trick.
>
>Optics is one of the things on a router with the highest MTBF so it's 
>unlikely they're broke.
>
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Might want to re-read the list of thing he said he'd already tried in the original post :o)
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