You may well find that the terms of the way the service is delivered to you will require you to use whatever CPE they provide. Switching their standard Media Converter for your own SFP will give them the opportunity to say 'it's not our problem' when/if you have a problem. I'd recommend you just run with what they give you, to be honest... unless you can get them to agree to what you want to do (and then officially advise you what type of SFP you need...) however it seems from Don's post that this might be path of some resistance :) Mark. On Fri, 26 Nov 2010, Liam wrote:
Hi,
I've got a Telstra fibre install happening next week, and I intend to plug the single mode tail straight into my Cisco 3750G via a Single Mode SFP, I've spent the afternoon tying to get the spec / wavelength out of Telstra & Downer to no avail..... the only answer they can come up with is its delivered as an "ethernet" service via a media converter, and go away... you pesky customer!
Could someone please let me know if its a 1310nm (1000BASE-EX), 1550nm (1000BASE-ZX), or 1490nm (1000BASE-BS-D), as I intend to "store" the media converter in a trash can once its commissioned, and want to order the SFP in advance of installation.
Kind Regards
Liam Farr
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