Fibre cable specs?

[ekhall@euroseek.com]

Hi!

I found the draft "X3T11/Project 755D/Rev 4.3", which seems close enough
to the "X3T11/Project 755D/Rev 4.2" draft which sun claim that the SSA
complies(sic!) with at:
http://lurch.cit.buffalo.edu/TechInfo/FiberChannel/fibre_channel_physical_interface.txt

I believe it says that it should work but be constrained to the shorter
cable length of 700m instead of 2km. However, it wasn't completely clear
to me so I suggest that you study the draft yourself too.

Hope this helps!

// Jesper

On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Ejvind Kristian (KEJA) wrote:

> Hi everybody!
> 
>   First some background:
>   We've got two E4000 with two SSA 112's standing on
> top of each other. The SSA's are each others mirrors.
> Now we've planned to move one computer and disk box to
> a server room in another building and have faced a little
> problem with the fibre cable specs.
>   The Sun specs says that the cable used to connect the
> SSA's should be multimode with size 50/125 (a cable type
> that almost the whole world except Japan stopped using in
> the beginning of the 90's). The cable type availble to us
> is multimode size 62.5/125. The distance between the computer
> rooms is less than 300 metres.
> 
>   The question: <tada>
>   Is it possible for us to use the 62.5/125 cable instead
> of 50/125 without any problems?
> 
>   We asked our local Sun dealer and were told (by someone
> who apparently just reached out for his binder with specs
> and read) that "No, Sun only supports 50/125".
> 
> /Kristian
> 
> --------------------------------------------
> Kristian Ejvind - Kristian.Ejvind@inv.spp.se
> System manager at SPP Investment Management 
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> 
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