Time to pull some more fiber

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Since, my doctor recommend that I put more fiber in my diet- I decided to comply.

So.... in a few hours, I will be running a few OS2 runs across my house, with 10G LR SFP+ modules.

Both runs will be from my rack to the office. One run will be dedicated for the incoming WAN connection (Coupled with the existing fiber that.... I don't want to re terminate). The other, will be replacing the 10G copper run already in place, to save 10 or 20w of energy.

This, was sparked due to a 10GBase-T module overheating, and becoming very intermittent earlier this week causing a bunch of issues. After replacing the module, links came back up and started working normally.... but... yea, I need to replace the 10G copper links.

With only twinax and fiber 10G links plugged into my 8-port aggregation switch, it is only pulling around 5 watts, which is outstanding, given a single 10GBase-T module uses more then that.

Edit,

Also, I ordered the wrong modules. BUT... the hard part of running the fiber is done!

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What made you go with single mode over multimode?

I assume distance, just wondering how big your house is haha.

My WAN connection, is a no-brainer, as it is already single-mode.

Regarding the connection to my switch back here though- since I was already ordering the single-mode regardless, I went ahead and decided to run it single-mode too.

That makes sense!

I've never really looked into running fibre into my house.

But when I worked in a DC I laid a lot of fibre so we didn't really think too deeply on what to use except for distance and bandwidth, unless the network team had a specific reason.

Good to know!

I have fibre to my house but only 1G so no point switching just yet.

Its not a necessity for me, however, I do lots of interesting networking experiments in my lab.

A good example, is my 40G networking project

So, this is mostly just playing around, but, it does have a few benefits. Power savings is one of them.

Yeah makes complete sense, cheers I'll check that link out!