Hey All,
I'm currently in the process of setting up/testing a CWDM single strand dark fiber fiber link between my two facilities. I'm using Solid Optics Muxes with FS's CWDM 10km SFP+ transceivers. (I only have access to one strand of dark fiber between buildings.) I'm implementing the "cross-connect" technique where I'm using one wavelength for the TX and another for the RX.
Example: 1590nm SFP+ in my switch at Site A and 1610nm SFP+ in my switch at Site B.
The SFP's receive side can accept any wavelength so the 1610nm SFP at Site B is receiving the 1590nm light from Site A and vice versa.
For a normal 10G data link I have between the facilities (just regular corporate LAN traffic) everything is working just fine and I have link and data flowing fine between the facilities. Switches aren't reading any drops or CRC errors, etc.
On another 10G path I need to transmit SMPTE 2022-6 video traffic which is uncompressed IP video (about 1.5Gbps per video stream and I won't be doing any more than 6Gbps on a single 10G link).
Can anyone think why this wouldn't work using two different wavelength transceivers? Are certain types of traffic more prone to issues using the "CWDM cross-connect technique" or at the end of the day is it all just data?
I ask because I'm doing this already and some of my video gear is dropping packets (every so often) on one of the links. I've even tried switching both SFP's out at both sites for completely different wavelengths (colors), and same thing.
I'm tracking down whether it's the video transmission gear itself or not but curious to hear if anyone has had issues with using different color wavelengths in practice. Any advice for this CWDM technique is greatly appreciated!
Thanks all.
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