I am trying to wrap my head around the many options and components needed to run fibre optic cables between two buildings (max length some 30m).
I primarily used Copper & DACs before and have looked into fibre optics a bit wrt to different connectors.
At this point I am lost in many ways,
eg
-how to map nr of fibre strands in a cable to the SR/LR mapping of transceivers (ie do I need 4 strands for a SR4 cable? can I add 3 transceivers to a 12 fibre cable);
-also I see a lot of fibre cables in large lengths with preconfigured connectors but am not sure if I need to get those? Or is there free length cable that can be connected to a fibre drop (by someone with appropriate tools)
- why would I need a splice box over a simple drop - is that if I have more fibre strands then needed for a single drop?
-Is it better to get 4 premade 30m cables and drop them in the ground (inside a conduit) or get 1 cable with 4 times the strands and use a splice box (and pay sb to connect cable to the box)?
-What cable to get - will OM4 suffice for <50M for 200Gbit or more (in 10 years) ?
So question upon questions - is there anything like a definitive guide anywhere? Have not found anything, but maybe all the wrong keywords...
Edit: Lets keep on multimode fibre here, dont think single mode is needed for length
I primarily used Copper & DACs before and have looked into fibre optics a bit wrt to different connectors.
At this point I am lost in many ways,
eg
-how to map nr of fibre strands in a cable to the SR/LR mapping of transceivers (ie do I need 4 strands for a SR4 cable? can I add 3 transceivers to a 12 fibre cable);
-also I see a lot of fibre cables in large lengths with preconfigured connectors but am not sure if I need to get those? Or is there free length cable that can be connected to a fibre drop (by someone with appropriate tools)
- why would I need a splice box over a simple drop - is that if I have more fibre strands then needed for a single drop?
-Is it better to get 4 premade 30m cables and drop them in the ground (inside a conduit) or get 1 cable with 4 times the strands and use a splice box (and pay sb to connect cable to the box)?
-What cable to get - will OM4 suffice for <50M for 200Gbit or more (in 10 years) ?
So question upon questions - is there anything like a definitive guide anywhere? Have not found anything, but maybe all the wrong keywords...
Edit: Lets keep on multimode fibre here, dont think single mode is needed for length
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