I am interested in a 20-meter link between a 2011UiAS-2HnD-IN and a CRS109-8G-1S-2HnD-IN.
I will pick up two SFP GPON ports HUAWEI GPON-OLT-CLASS C+ SSX1T1LTD Class 1 Laser, and connect them through a SC/APC to SC/APC cable monomode simplex 9/125.
I am fairly new trying this thing, and I would like your help.
WIll it work when I connect the MikroTik’s between them? What steps should I perform to get the link working? If so, at what speed will they communicate? 1.25Gbps, or 2.5Gbps?
Please help me, maybe I am doing a silly thing trying to interconnect that way the MikroTiks, but I simply don’t know. And if it can be done, I don’t know, maybe simply connecting them would make that work!
What do you mean by a “normal SFP”? The ones with two fibres?
Right now the thing is that is a home-project, and I have an SC/APC cable connecting the two points, 20metres away. So I would like to reuse it, because now it’s almost impossible to run another cable the same way. Just for you to know, it is just like this http://www.fs.com//images/Standard-Fiber-Patch-Cables/20160908174325_916.jpg
The cable was put there as a normal Fiber Optics installation in order to have Internet at home, but now I don’t use it.
I want to use the GPON modules because I have them spare, so I don’t have to put any extra money on this. Will it work? Or the exact question is: How should I make this work?
The GPON system is meant to connect multiple clients to a central provider using a single optical connection and passive splitters. It uses a time division approach to multiplex the user traffic to achieve this. You need to have a central equipment (called OLT) providing the central management system (not available from MT, and AFAIK OLT modules are not supported ) to which a number of clients can connect (with equipments called ONU).
The MT GPON module provide the ONU side of such connections. Connections between 2 ONU are not possible. The same is true for 2 OLT modules.
Regular fiber can use one or two fibers to create a P2P connection. If a single fiber is used, the SFP modules use 2 different light wavelengths to achieve bidirectional traffic over the single fiber and come in pairs.
As recommended, MT modules are available as Bidi and regular modules and use LC connectors.
But there are also other BiDi modules on the market which use SC connectors and work with MT routers, so you can reuse your fiber. What you need to know is if your fiber is a multi mode (MM - usually orange or turquoise) or a single mode (SM - usually yellow, and most outdoor ones no matter the color) fiber and get modules for that type of fiber. In your case it is SM fiber, so you need one of those. The fact that the connector is PC, UPC or APC is not relevant on the SFP endpoint.
Depending on the SFP slots and modules, you can have either 1.25 Gbps with SFP and 10Gbps with SFP+ parts.
So, as far as I’ve read, you can plug it to any SFP port and substitute your internet connection if you know how to configure your mikrotik, isn’t it? I didn’t know it existed!
It is not that simple.
First, you can ONLY substitute an GPON ONT, not someting else like a GEPON ONT or regular fiber connections.
Second, your provider needs to register your module to his OLT (central equipment) instead of the one provided to you. They will probably refuse it.
Third, you will loose any additional telephony and video services provided by your CPE.
Again, for direct fiber interconnections, you need to use regular fiber interface modules like these (which are BTW much cheaper):
