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L0g1t3ch
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Sep 07, 2016
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connecting 2 FS728TP via sfp port

Hi, im trying to connect two FS728TP switches (located in different offices that are q50 feet apart) via the SFP connecters. They are strung together with multimode fibre cable but I cant seem to get...
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    L0g1t3ch
    Sep 09, 2016

    Fixed it!

     

    Aparently my hunch was right and the fault was with the fiber cable. The engineer had plugged the sedning fiber core on the back of the patch panel into the same port on the opposite end instead of the receiving connector. As soon as he flipped it over the sfp module came to life and voip traffic started flowing.

     

    Happy days :)

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