[tech] Re: UCC uplink network upgrade

[David Luyer]

> > 	The patch cabling is going to be a bit of a mess - looks like
> > we have all three kinds of fibre terminator.
> 
> I can see how that could happen <grin>. ST's are in place already, SC's
> are common and cheap, yet MT-RJ's certainly look like a sensible form
> factor in their own right.

'all' three?

There's over a dozen types of fibre connector.

Try this PDF:

 http://www.fujikura.co.jp/cnc/eng/pdf_files/english/cnce001.pdf

...and that's before you even start looking at audio fibre connectors.

At UWA the really old fibres were SMA, most newer multimode were ST and
the new singlemode were SC.

SC is the most common these days for new stuff but I've seen some Cisco
PA's with misaligned lasers on SC, never saw any alignment problems with
ST at UWA (but SMA was always a pain).

David.