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bandwidth-length product

A figure of merit for optical fiber, usually expressed as MHz*kilometer.

As an example, a Fibre Channel link operating at 1 Gb/s using a fiber with a bandwidth-length product of 500 MHz*kilometer will support a link distance of approximately 500 meters.

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