Hi guys,
Major telecom company in our company will install a fiber optic Point to Point (private link) between our data center and one of our towers. They will install 10Mbps transceivers. However, if this’s a private link, do you think it would be possible to replace these 10Mbps transceivers with a 1Gbps transceiver? Just in case, it’s not an MPLS or VLAN based link.
I’m curious to hear your opinions.
Thanks,
It should be possible. I would expect that one of these would work depending on if your using single-mode or multi-mode:
http://routerboard.com/S-85DLC05D or http://routerboard.com/S-31DLC20D
These would work well in either a MikroTik router or switch
Hi Mauricioisp,
If the link is actually dark fibre, i.e. does not go through the telco’s active equipment, this might be possible. But unless there is an actual trench going directly from your DC to the tower with direct burial fibre laid point to point, I very much doubt you are going to manage to get more than the 10Mbps you are paying for. The telco shall probably cross connect both legs (half circuits) and make sure you would be limited to your 10Mbps. However, no harm in trying. Just make sure you get the correct SFP’s to test.
If it works, you are one lucky guy!!! Good Luck.
Rgds,
Mark.
Hi,
It will travel through Carrier’s DWDM network, what do you think about that would be possible to easily upgrade speed just replacing transceivers?
Probably not, but it depends on their DWDM design.
If the transceivers they provide are tuned to the wavelengths they are allocating to you, and feed directly into their mux/demux/adm; then it may work, if you get new transceivers tuned to the same wavelengths.
More commonly, carriers will convert the DWDM wavelengths to ‘grey light’ (standard 1310 or 1550 nm) for the local loops, typically using an external media converter shelf, which will be data-rate (and possibly protocol) specific.
–Eric