Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Use Duplex fiber cable in Simplex installation

I'm discussing the following with a colleague and we haven't been able to find our answer through Google.

If we have an installation that has two BiDi Singlemode SFP modules in each end (different wavelength), but we only have a Duplex Singlemode fiber cable (2 strands of fiber together) at our disposal. Is it possible to use just one of these fibers (temporarily) and let the other strand of fiber be left unused, or is a Simplex Singlemode fiber cable required?

To simplify the question: Is a duplex singlemode fiber cable simply two simplex singlemode fiber cables stuck together?



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