Multimode Power Budget Example (With Sufficient Power For Transmission) - Cisco Gigabit Switch Router 12008 Installation And Configuration Manual

Site Wiring Guidelines
Subtracting the data link loss from the power budget should produce a result greater than
zero. If a result is less than zero, you may have insufficient power for receiver operation.
For SONET line cards, the signal must meet the signal requirements listed in Table 2-6.
Table 2-6
Characteristic
Minimum transmitter
power (PT)
Minimum receiver
sensitivity (PR)
Power Budget (PB)

Multimode Power Budget Example (with Sufficient Power for Transmission)

This section contains a sample calculation of a multimode power budget, based on the
following variables:
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Length of multimode link = 3 km
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Four connectors
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Three splices
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Higher order loss (HOL)
•
Clock recovery module (CRM)
Estimate the power budget, as follows:
PB = 13 dB – 3 km (1.0 dB/km) – 4 (0.5 dB) – 3 (0.5 dB) – 0.5 dB (HOL) – 1 dB (CRM)
PB = 13 dB – 3 dB – 2 dB – 1.5 dB – 0.5 dB – 1 dB
PB = 5 dB
The resulting power budget (PB) value of 5 dB indicates that this link would have sufficient
power for fiber-optic transmission.
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