When did UI get - CWDM Mux Demux 8 ? Very cool to see
I’m not even sure what that is.
CWDM stuff used in ISP a lot to split light into different waves so you can have more than one customer like say Fiber to the tower where you got like Verizon and Sprint at the same tower they put them on different wave so they can run back into the ISP and out the other end… I sure people use it for other thing as well.
Will they add OADMs to their lineup?
How about 18 channel Muxes? Or at least offer the shorter wavelengths in a 8channel nux
There are several applications that would fit in the larger campus where I work. One of the biggest things is they will not spend the money on more fiber, so we are kind of locked to what’s under the ground right now. Considering that we could run 432 ribbon cable to each building and have plenty going forward, labor is the big thing holding it back. Just for fun, here’s a price for 1000 feet https://www.graybar.com/432zv4-14100d53---sst-ultraribbontrade-dielectric-cable-432-fiber-singlemode-os2-smf-28reg-ultra-fiber-ribbon-gel-free/p/26383711
These won’t help you if a digger rips up your fiber, but it could help you to expand a network that is frozen in time with old cables. We almost considered something like this to repurpose old OM1 fibers that we have EVERYWHERE. The cost to mux into a 10gb connection would quickly add up, I seem to recall over $10,000 per end to do what we wanted. Due to length we can’t even get gigabit from those old fibers, they mostly sit dark and in the way. We probably have 3 to 1 OM1 to SF in the tunnels and conduit under our campus, it’s a shame we can’t use them for anything these days.
I should add to the off topic, there are some good videos on splicing those ribbon cables, pretty neat and pretty fast since you can fuse them per ribbon or do them singles if needed.