Networking Fiber Optics

[RabbieBurns]

The network I'm looking after now has a main 10gb and 1gb fiber runs throughout the buildings. Ive never worked with fiber before, and getting a bit confused with the terminologies involved.

Is there somewhere that I can read up about the various types for fibre and terminologies etc.

eg, single mode vs multi mode, distances, speeds etc?

Module types, LX, SX etc etc and which goes with which type of fiber?

Basically something for a complete fiber newbie.. cheers

[SYNACK]

haven't found a good tutorial but can give a quick rundown:

LX - long range using laser transmitters using narrower fibre running 10km+ which you never look at to test as it can burn your retina and blind you (use cellphone cam to look at instead which will pick up infrared and sheild your eyes)
SX - short range multimode using LED transmitters, 1km'ish and usually called multimode - can support 1GB on 65um or 1GB on 50um fibre

There are lots of different connectors that mean nothing to speed etc but there is no single standard leading to different patch leads depending on existing building wireing:
Fiber Optic Connector Identifier
Fiber Optic Connectors Tutorial, Fiber Termination, Fiber Ferrule Polish Types, Fiber Connector Types
Fiber Optic Connector Reference

Ah, found a tutorial here that should help a bit more:
Fiber Optic Cable single-mode multi-mode Tutorial

[mac_shinobi]

The network I'm looking after now has a main 10gb and 1gb fiber runs throughout the buildings. Ive never worked with fiber before, and getting a bit confused with the terminologies involved.

Is there somewhere that I can read up about the various types for fibre and terminologies etc.

eg, single mode vs multi mode, distances, speeds etc?

Module types, LX, SX etc etc and which goes with which type of fiber?

Basically something for a complete fiber newbie.. cheers

Something to put a bit of fibre in your diet

[RabbieBurns]

did i spell it wrong macobi?

@SNACK: Thanks, ill check them out next week after the long weekend. Basically my problem thus far has been with matching the right modules to the right types of fiber run.

[RabbieBurns]

ps how do you do they hyperlink name thing?

[mac_shinobi]

URL Hyper linking about a third of the way down

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/misc.php?do=bbcode

and was just being faceatious ( cant spell lol )

[RabbieBurns]

nah i mean tagging usernames in posts ala twitter style

[Steve21]

nah i mean tagging usernames in posts ala twitter style

@username Isn't it?

Test - @RabbieBurns

Steve

[RabbieBurns]

@Steve21 thanks, glad you knew what I was on about

[m25man]

This will help...