ok, bought a 50M 12Fiber MPO cable on bay. I'm attaching a diagram it came with.
I also bought because I found one super cheap, a Systimax Instapatch panel thinking I could run a 50M MPO from our server room to the video suite and fan out from there.
I used a paper clip and flipped one end of one of the MPO Cables I have and plugged it in. if you look at the photo of the inside of the instapatch the first MPO input is going to Alpha side 1-12 which makes sense to me. With the flipped MPO though the lasers are lighting up fibers 1,2,3,4 and if I use the non-flipped as it came MPO cable it lights up 9,10,11,12
Looking at the back of the 6610 I'm trying the two right side 40GB ports (fan out ports) and I disabled stacking etc during setup. in the Web UI I see everything I have connected and I see those ports as 4 10GB ports.
If I plug a LC cable into 1,2 or 3,4 (or 9,10,11,12 with other cable) I get connected but no internet (in a windows system) from a solarflare card.
LC transmitters work fine in all the 10GB front ports, and I would have thought that the instapatch would light up 1,3,5,7 or 2,4,6,8 and give me 4 channels.
Is this instapatch made to do something else? I see there are different versions of it,. Any help is appreciated.
Oh, last question, should I just buy an MPO Breakout cable and coupler to go at other end?
EDIT: 9,10,11,12 with non flipped cable