Wow, Ron, I'm impressed! So okay, if the system is as clean as the ones you scoped, it looks like 30 dB SNR is feasible. But if stuff starts degrading, maybe not too safe to shoot for 30 dB? Anyway, with a penalty of 3 dB compared with the Shannon limit, 30 dB SNR gives just under 50 Mb/s capacity, in the 5.5 MHz channel. I would expect a FTTH system to be capable of supporting higher SNR safely, but maybe that isn't true. Optical connectors are fool proof either. Bert ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.