Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Juniper QSFP+ PLR4 MTP to 4xLC SMF Breakout

Does anyone know if this works? I am thinking about doing this on EX4600 switches. However Juniper only lists QSFP+ breakout cables with fixed SFP+ modules on the cable which can only be used for short distances in a rack (like dac).

So I was wondering if the QSFP+ can be broken out to MTP using 3rd party optics like: https://www.fs.com/products/75300.html

And then split into 4 LC connector pairs of single mode fiber which can be connected to 4 different switches over long distances using a cable like this: https://www.fs.com/products/68048.html

So one question is does anyone have experience with the breakout in general and then especially using PLR4 for breakout to achieve long distances over single mode? Any practical advice why this is a good or bad idea? (if it even works)



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