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All the installers told me was the signal was moving too fast from building A to building B and I needed to pad the equipment that was to be installed. 
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All the installers told me was the signal was moving too fast from building A to building B and I needed to pad the equipment that was to be installed.

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I know that when testing fibres you sometimes need to insert a long (5km+) piece of fibre to smooth the signel out and give you a accurate reading, as with a short lenth the responce times are so fast the testing equipment is not accurate. maybe this is what they mean. <br />
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but to be honest i still think there termonology is wrong. laws of physics say speed of light is a set value! 
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I know that when testing fibres you sometimes need to insert a long (5km+) piece of fibre to smooth the signel out and give you a accurate reading, as with a short lenth the responce times are so fast the testing equipment is not accurate. maybe this is what they mean.

but to be honest i still think there termonology is wrong. laws of physics say speed of light is a set value!

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I work for a park district and we recently completed a fiber project where we ran fiber cable through our lake and land to connect our 3 buildings to our 1st building where our two t1's come in. After the company trenched and installed the fiber cable, they said the signal from end to end was moving too fast and our equipment (switches both POE and NON) needed to be &quot;padded&quot; to slow down the signal.<br />
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Does anyone know how to do this and what it means? we purchased DLINK switches (DES-3010pa, DES-3010GA, AND DES 1228P) I have included a fiber map of how many strands were installed and where. Thanks MJD<br />
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I work for a park district and we recently completed a fiber project where we ran fiber cable through our lake and land to connect our 3 buildings to our 1st building where our two t1's come in. After the company trenched and installed the fiber cable, they said the signal from end to end was moving too fast and our equipment (switches both POE and NON) needed to be "padded" to slow down the signal.

Does anyone know how to do this and what it means? we purchased DLINK switches (DES-3010pa, DES-3010GA, AND DES 1228P) I have included a fiber map of how many strands were installed and where. Thanks MJD

How to pad a switch for a fiber connection?

The term broadband commonly refers to high-speed Internet access that is always on and faster than the traditional dial-up access. Broadband includes several high-speed transmission technologies such as digital subscriber line (DSL), cable, fiber optics, wireless (for which there is a separate topic), satellite and broadband over powerlines (BPL).

Broadband

A switch is a device that filters and forwards packets of data between LAN segments. Switches operate at the data link layer or the network layer of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Reference Model and therefore support any packet protocol. LANs that use switches to join segments are called switched LANs or, in the case of Ethernet networks, switched Ethernet LANs. A hub is a connection point for devices in a network. Hubs are commonly used to connect segments of a LAN. A hub contains multiple ports; when a packet arrives at one port, it is copied to the other ports so that all segments of the LAN can see all packets.

Switches / Hubs

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