Fiber Uplink for a High-Throughput Storage Node

Tidewater Imaging Co. · ingest-srv-12 → agg-switch-A · Network+ N10-009 simulation lab

N10-009 · 1.5 transmission media & transceivers AP Networking · 2.3.B fiber media Score 0 / 8

Cabling bench

ingest-srv-12 captures 4K footage and writes to the iSCSI array. Its 1 Gb copper uplink is saturated. Replace it with a 10 Gb optical uplink to agg-switch-A, port Te1/0/3 (populated with a 10GBASE-SR SFP+, LC, 850 nm).

agg-switch-A  ·  Te1/0/3
10GBASE-SR SFP+ transceiver · LC duplex · 850 nm · multimode-rated
SFP+ Rx
SFP+ Tx
ingest-srv-12  ·  back panel
Dual-LC 10G multimode NIC + on-board 1000BASE-T (RJ-45)
Fiber Tx
Fiber Rx
Cat 6
RJ-45 uplink

Parts shelf — choose one patch cable

Strand polarity

agg-switch-A# show interface Te1/0/3 Te1/0/3 is down, line protocol is down (no transceiver light)

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