Everyone said this was impossible - Backyard Fiber Run

Everyone told me I was CRAZY when I pitched running a fibre optic cable directly between our headquarters and our new testing lab for a 100-gigabit internet connection... today I prove them wrong!

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MUSIC CREDIT
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Intro: Laszlo - Supernova

Outro: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High

CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro

[IDonotHaveAGoodName]

I'm pretty sure no amount of distance, either land or water, can stop Linus from setting up wifi/ethernet.

[Matisyahuwu]

“You with the city”
“Naw we just have a building and are running a cable”
“Oh thanks man we’ve tried and it’s been hard”
What a good Canadian conversation

[StevenOBrien]

Imagine you're just chilling in your basement, minding your own business, and Linus suddenly digs through the wall with a fiber cable.

[CampagnoloChick]

As a infrastructure engineer that has worked with fiber optic deployments and DWDM it was interesting to watch you do this. One of the things you should consider getting is an OTDR. That would allow you to characterize the cable, measure things like Chromatic Dispersion and it would tell you the quality of the glass used. It's also helpful in telling you if/where a break is exactly on your fiber. I would suggest a video series on OTDR and your experiences with it.

[deldarel]

Dan always sounds like he's got nothing left to lose and enjoys the freedom of that situation.
I love him. I hope we see him more!

[The_Phobose_Show]

As a fiber optic lineman, I find this extremely entertaining.

[RolandsSh]

While Linus may say that it's just a temporary deployment for the memes, we all know that nothing is as permanent as a temporary solution.

[williamjohnson]

TLDR: Don't do 3 ports on your LAG between sites.

For your "future proofing" I would advise against doing 3 ports in an LACP LAG/Port channel. The load balancing algorithm is only optimal in powers of 2. So 1, 2, 4, or 8 is good and 3, 5, 6, or 7 will be sub-optimal.

There are 8 subqueues of the load sharing algorithm for the LAG which are assigned to members whenever a port came up in the LAG group. Traffic is allocated to the subqueues in a round robin manner.

Using 100Gbps ports, the following summarizes the allocations and effect:

2 ports - each port get 4 subqueues - bandwidth is 2x100Gbps = 200Gbps (2x 100Gbps flows)
3 ports - two get 3, one gets 2 - bandwidth is 2x100Gbps, 1x67Gbps = 267Gbps (2 x 100Gbps, 1 x 67gbps flows)
4 ports - all get 2 subqueues - bandwidth is 4x100Gbps = 400Gbps (4 x 100Gbps flows)
5 ports - 3 get 2 subqueues, 2 get 1 subqueues - bandwidth is 3x100Gbps. 2x50Gbps = 400Gbps (3 x 100Gbps, 2 x 50Gbps flows)
6 ports - 2 get 2 subqueues, 4 get 1 subqueues - bandwidth is 2x100Gpbs, 4x50Gpbs = 400Gbps (2 x 100Gbps, 4 x 50Gbps flows)
7 ports - 1 get 2 subqueues, 6 get 1 subqueues - bandwidth is 1x100Gbps, 6x50Gbps = 400Gbps (1 x 100Gbps flows, 6 x 50Gbps flows)
8 ports - all get 1 subqueues - bandwidth is 8x100Gbps = 800Gbps (8 x 100Gbps flows)

Because a data stream/flow can only go over one link at a time, no one user will ever see more than 100Gbps. If the flow decides to go over the port that has an odd number of subqueues, they will max at less than 100Gbps on that flow.

I worked at an ISP and one of our customers insisted on having 3x10G connections for their transit and were mad when they only were utilizing a max of 26.7gbps of what they thought should have been 30Gbps.

[tomdchi]

The deeper the overgrowth, the more Canadian Linus becomes.

[phenomanII]

I understood the need for all of the writers, editors and camera operators. I knew that the business team had to deal with a lot of things too.
I didn't realise that part of the reason LMG has to work without Linus is that he'll spend a day crawling through bushes.

Imagine someone asking you where the CEO of the company is and you have to point to someone landscaping out back. Love it.

[blancfilms]

Linus: This is a temporary deployment
Linus 6 years later on WAN show: Remember that fibreoptic cable between the two offices which we said we'd only use temporarly as a proof-of-concept? Yeah we used that for the last couple of years no problem.

[justkelly]

I installed Fiber Optics from the very beginning of its introduction until I retired 5 years ago. The only time I sustained damage was when an apprentice flipped it up into the air and popped it on the ground to try and unloop it. Shattered over 100 feet. Cut and splice time. Overpulling destroys it. Slow and easy is the rule. It is very sturdy when handled properly and never dropped. Love the stuff for distance. Now I prefer point to point microwave for less than a mile.

[MrMat]

This is either madness or brilliance. It's remarkable how often those two traits coincide

[Kafiristanica]

Thank you Linus, for standing up for horizontal filming.

[IgnacioValdivieso]

This is the only channel that can get me to enjoy watching a 30 minute video about connecting a cable

[Thorinbur]

Respect for taking the head role in this and leading the charge. I could have easily see CEO of any other company showing up, filming his bit at the end and in the beggining of the pull and letting people on a payroll deal with the hard part.

[IRFALLZ]

"Unfortunately we couldn't find any cooling fans, but we did find this leaf blower."
Has a more Linus sentence ever existed

[damagecase]

As a Cable Puller working for Bell Canada, it really felt like Linus was saying thank you to me.

[jonmichaelcampbell]

I'm constantly impressed by how knowledgeable and dangerous Jake has become. Well done

[Vnster]

"We stole this computer from the keyboard testing robot", and thus by issuing this specific sequence of words for the first time in all history, Linus inadvertently brings about the apocalypse. It's hard not to be caught up with the camaraderie and enthusiasm of the team on this endeavour. This also shows the tenacity that has helped to turn LTT into the force that it is, hats off.