Organization of this publication
This publication is organized as follows:
- Introduction to fiber optic links provides a brief introduction to fiber optic information transfer, lists the components that can be included in a fiber optic channel link, and shows an example of a fiber optic channel link.
- Link, trunk, and IBM jumper cable planning discusses fiber optic channel link planning tasks and contains considerations and recommendations related to planning for fiber optic channel links.
- Calculating the loss in a multimode link describes how to calculate the maximum allowable loss for a fiber optic channel link that uses multimode components. It shows an example of a multimode link and includes a completed work sheet that uses values based on the link example.
- Calculating the loss in a single mode link describes how to calculate the maximum allowable loss for a fiber optic channel link that uses single mode components. It shows an example of a single mode link and includes a completed work sheet that uses values based on the link example.
- Specifications lists the specifications and optical properties for a fiber optic channel link, IBM jumper cables, and trunk cable.
- FICON/FCP I/O physical layer: Introduction provides a brief introduction to fiber optic information transfer as it relates to FICON®/FCP.
- Multimode physical layer describes the physical and optical requirements in a multimode link.
- Single Mode physical layer describes the physical and optical requirements in a single mode link.
- InfiniBand coupling links I/O physical layer: Introduction provides a brief introduction to fiber optic information transfer as it relates to InfiniBand coupling links.
- InfiniBand coupling link (12x IFB) 50 micron multimode physical layer describes the physical and optical requirements in a 12x InfiniBand multimode link.
- 1x InfiniBand coupling link 9 micron single mode physical layer describes the physical and optical requirements in a 1x InfiniBand single-mode link.
- Integrated Coupling Adapter (24x PCIe) 50 micron multimode physical layer describes the physical and optical requirements in a 24x ICA-SR coupling link.
- Measurement conversion tables contains conversion tables from English measurements to metric and metric measurements to English.
- Fiber optic channel attachment options describes the history and future of fiber optics.
- FICON/FCP I/O Physical Layer: Test methods and examples describes optical measurement procedures, and provides graphs referencing the maximum spectral width and center wavelength for 1.0625 Gbps.
- Coupling links I/O physical layer: Test methods describes optical measurement procedures for coupling links.