Table 52: Estimated Values For Factors Causing Link Loss - Juniper T4000 Hardware Manual

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Appendix E: T4000 Router Cable and Wire Specifications, Pinouts, and Guidelines
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factors, refer to vendor documentation.

Table 52: Estimated Values for Factors Causing Link Loss

Link-Loss Factor
Higher-order mode losses
Modal and chromatic dispersion
Connector
Splice
Fiber attenuation
The following example uses the estimated values in Table 33 to calculate link loss (LL)
for a 2-km-long multimode link with a power budget (P
Fiber attenuation for 2 km @ 1.0 dB/km= 2 dB
Loss for five connectors @ 0.5 dB per connector = 5(0.5 dB) = 2.5 dB
Loss for two splices @ 0.5 dB per splice =2(0.5 dB) = 1 dB
Higher-order mode loss = 0.5 dB
Clock recovery module = 1 dB
The power margin (P ) is calculated as follows:
M
P = P – LL
M B
P = 13 dB – 2 km (1.0 dB/km) – 5 (0.5 dB) – 2 (0.5 dB) – 0.5 dB [HOL] – 1 dB [CRM]
M
P = 13 dB – 2 dB – 2.5 dB – 1 dB – 0.5 dB – 1 dB
M
P = 6 dB
M
The following sample calculation for an 8-km-long single-mode link with a power budget
(P ) of 13 dB uses the estimated values from
B
(LL) as the sum of fiber attenuation (8 km @ 0.5 dB/km, or 4 dB) and loss for seven
connectors (0.5 dB per connector, or 3.5 dB). The power margin (P
follows:
P = P – LL
M B
Estimated Link-Loss Value
Single-mode—None
Multimode—0.5 dB
Single-mode—None
Multimode—None, if product of bandwidth and distance
is less than 500 MHz-km
0.5 dB
0.5 dB
Single-mode—0.5 dB/km
Multimode—1 dB/km
) of 13 dB:
B
Table 52 on page 349 to calculate link loss
) is calculated as
M
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