HP Intrusion Prevention System S10 Cable Plant Specifications, Specification Units Value, 101

•For the long-wave port, Hewlett-Packard recommends 9-micron single-mode fiber cable.

•For ports 1 through 9, Hewlett-Packard recommends 50-micron multimode fiber cable for new installations but also supports 62.5-micron multimode fiber cable with SC-style connectors in existing installations.

Cable Plant Specifications

The cable plant includes losses of the fiber and splices and connectors (excluding those at the ends of the link that are accounted for in the transmitter and receiver specifications).

Table 8 Cable Plant Specifications: Single-Mode (2 km–10 km, 100 MB/sec)

Specification	Units	Value
Fiber type		Single-mode; step index
Fiber core	micron	9 (nominal)
Fiber Bandwidth (1 km)	MHz	Not applicable
Fiber Dispersion	Ps/nm	< 35
Return loss of cable plant with receiver connected	dB	> 12
Return loss of each individual connector or splice	dB	> 26
Cable plant loss	dB	< 6*

*HP suggests that the loss of a new single-mode cable plant be limited to 6dB or lower in order to maximize the probability that the cable plant will permit 10- km operation with the majority of long-wave hubs (HP-UX servers only). Larger losses are permissible if the receiver power is greater than -17dBm. For new installations, HP recommends that the single-mode fiber be low-loss fiber equivalent to Corning’s premium grade of their single- mode SMF-28 cable with loss of 0.35 dB/km or lower in order to more easily attain the required signal power at the receiver in spite of losses due to connectors and splices.

Reference

Operating Requirements 101