Does anyone know if there has been a study of failure rate of fiber attenuators compared to transceivers that might run on the hot side that are still within specs?
For example, will adding a attenuator make sense when running at -1dB (while specs allow up to +2dB) to lower transceiver failure risk compared to the extra risk of adding an attenuator that could fail?
My theory would be that if light levels are within specs, then attenuator failure rate risk would be higher then just leaving it a little on the hotter side. I tried to do a Google search on that but found nothing useful.
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