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[gaspo]

The test on SFP+ connected in one end into an SFP port, is what I needed! Great channel. Thanks a lot!

[MikeHarris]

I've been using 10GTEK for years now and LOVE it... amazing price and QUALITY product!!! Works without any issues, never had a failure.

[garryholmberg]

Another good supplier of SFP/SFP+, fiber, DAC etc is Hummingbird Networks. I have tried FS store, Amazon, and Hummingbird. I like Hummingbird because of their great support. You call them to determine if their products are guaranteed to work for a given switch and you get a firm answer. If they don't know they will sometimes send you a trial device. If it works, you pay for it and keep it. If it doesn't work you simply return it. Can't ask for more.

[terryjohnson]

We've been using 10Gtek transceivers for both ubiquiti and HP procurve / Aruba switches for 2-3 years. Haven't had a failure yet.

[joejoe]

Thank for helping not make bad decisions

[doublecontralto]

I run 2.5G Base T from my main rig over CAT 6 to a Mikrotik branded 10G transceiver on a CRS305, no problem negotiating at 2500 and I've gotten very close to that in sustained transfer to or from my NAS.

[Kushari]

Wow, I literally was looking at RJ45 SFP+ adaptors today. I didn't know if they existed, just googled to see if they do, and found similar amazon products, then this video. Perfect!

[AZTrucker]

Run iperf if you want to get a great idea what your network speeds are. Perfect for fine tuning especially with pfsense but higher throughput is best with TNSR.

[Cjaiceman]

The MikroTik S+RJ10 SFP+ module will do 10M/100M/1G/2.5G/5G/10G, but I don't know if they'll work in a Ubiquiti switch.

[lucklassen]

Nice video! Thanks for sharing. I am very close to purchasing my first 10G switch (MikroTik) and first SFP+ transceivers!

[minigpracing]

This goes back about 10 years, but the last time I talked to anyone at Fiberdyne, they said they had a new user applied, glued connector for certain types of fiber. The person I was speaking to said that losses were nearly the same as a fusion splice. I haven't needed more fiber for my small system, so never looked into it. And their prices for custom length bundles terminated to customer specs. were so cheap that it generally isn't worth looking into those connectors. 10 years ago the 6 pairs I bought were about $150 for about 130 feet, might have had a nonprofit/educational discount applied.

[zenja]

I'm working in a Datacenter as engineer and if a costumer asks for MMF connects I just show him the door or hit him with my SMF/E2000/APC whip.
TLDR: Use Singemode
Rant about MMF:

From an investment standpoint, if you still have OM1 (gray) cableing, rip it out. If you have OM2 (orange) or OM3 (blue) ok.
Don't buy OM4 for new long runs over 30m, it's ok inside a rack but it's failing to often.
Don't be hyped about OM5 - to expensive and in 850nm it have more lost than OM3/4 because it's made for WDM SFP's with multible colored waves in one fiber.
For new installs, use SMF and splice them to an APC Connector LC/SC or best E2000. Yes you need matching patch cabels for it, but if you forward a fiber link from your carrier through a building to your office via multible patchrooms, you will see the difference. Yes the SFP's are more expensive (20€ vs. 26€ @fs) but in the future if you upgrade to 25/100 or 400G. 400G QSFP-DD LC Duplex with 10km LR4/LR8 are on sale now (4000€-10000€ per SFP but 400G!!!)
Even if you only need 100G at the moment or even only 10G, you don't want to replace you pre installed cabeling only the SFP's. (100G is @ 1400€ for a pair of SMF QSFP28 Modules)
Also most QSFP-DD are SMF only.
I normaly compare vendore SFP's with FS or flexoptix pricing and then choose what I need. If I need max. compatibility because I sell them to carriers if they have a broken one and need a replacement now - I choose flexoptix flash them and it works.
If you build a office, just run fiber most of the way, pace a switch where your users are or plan floor tanks with space for switch, patchpanel, cable etc.
Yes a fusionsplicer starts at 2500€ and easily go up to 10000€ but when I had the first one with a raw 12core cable on hand I had figured it out in ~30min without introduction. Also the device tells you if the spice is ok, @ rj-45 you mostly have to check the complete cable to find the error.

[friedrich]

Thank you!
It's sad, because especially with regards to professional WiFi 6 APs or newer mainboards, 2.5GBase-T will certainly establish itself as a cheap step in between. What is really missing is an all-round switch that can handle 1G, 2.5G, 5G, 10G over copper AND/OR fiber.

[dustinkrejci]

When I want to sleep I go to this kind of video, quite a relaxing video and I’m learning as I sleep ;-) I’m a network guide needs to sleep.

I dream in cables ;)

[chriseggroll]

i'm just starting to upgrade my home network to 10g and got one of those mikrotik switches coming! i'm trying to use the direct attach cables when i can to reduce heat but will need at least a few of the rj45 modules. i actually already have cat7 and cat8 cables because they were cheap and i didn't need very many, but this is a pretty old vid haha

[joechou]

The 10G fiber to copper module usually has higher power consumption than the SFP+ standard 1.5W, probably around ~2.5W. This causes the heat and thermal problem and makes it more than 70C. Unless we have a good "cooling" system in the switch. Did you agree with that?

[meynoush]

Watching from Iran. Very informative.
Thank you. \m/

[ivosarak]

(Traditionally) branded equipment (Cisco, HPE, ...) is more "picky" about modules you can install into them and accepted modules can be much more expensive as well.

[rdmclark]

Were was this a few days ago? while I figured out sfp+ trancevers and fiber

[pachjo]

In an enterprise environment like a data center it’s better to use lc lc cables than dac even sfp+ is better. The optics get really hot in a data center environment and the optics fail. Dac cables if this happens the entire cable needs to be replaced. With lc the optics just needs replacing. I have never had a cable failure before it’s always been the optics or a port failure. It’s a pain because if the dac cable is 20m and the optics fail you have to pull the entire cable out and replace it which in a data center is a time consuming process.