When I was a kid I wanted to be a major league shortstop. I’m pretty sure that most of you reading this had plans for an alternative career in your younger days.
Ease of access to a fully recoverable production environment can mean the difference between emerging from a disaster at minimal cost and maximum speed, or picking up the pieces of your business and reputation.
We can’t stress enough that disaster recovery is more often about maintaining business as usual in the wake of a mundane outage, hardware failure or human error, rather than the more remote probability of a hurricane or flood of biblical proportions.
In my first post, I talked about media conversion at the physical layer. Today I want to talk to you about how to use optical time-domain reflectometer (OTDR)-equipped small form-factor pluggables (SFP) to detect fiber breaks.