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interfaces over multimode fiber would be dispersion
limited. OC-3 rate interfaces (either IR or LR) might
be expected to reach 3.2 km over multimode fiber,
and OC-12 IR interfaces might reach 800 meters. It is
important to stress that these are theoretical values.
The circumstances under which these distances can
be achieved is not specified or controlled by Nortel.
The design of the hardware can impact the
applicability of these results and should be
considered. OC-12 LR/ER or OC-48 interfaces use
single-mode fiber in their pigtails, for example, and so
shouldn’t be used with multimode fiber.
Customers using multimode fiber typically want to use
it to transport a small number of low speed interfaces
(e.g. DS-1s). This application would be appropriate
for a number of legacy asynchronous transport
multiplexers, such as the FMT-6 and FMT-150
products that were previously sold by Nortel (since
spun off to CTDI). These products are sold with
ultimode interfaces and support transmission over
multimode fiber. They can act as tributaries to the
OM3000 in a “book ended” fashion if multimode
transmission is a small part of a larger transport
network.
EIM migration consideration for OM33/3400
This document outlines the considerations and
recommendations for customers with previous
deployments of the Ethernet Inverse Multiplexer (EIM)
on the OPTera 3300/3400 platforms. Information is
provided with respect to supported migration paths as
well as the supported hardware for the targeted
software level. Primarily, it is to make one aware of
the change in support status of the EIM circuit card at
releases 9.12 and 11.1 and the options available for a
transition to the OPTera Packet Edge/Resilient Packet
Ring and/or Point To Point circuit cards.
EIM Migration
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