Talk:Optical communications repeater

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[edit] Merge

This article can and should stand on its own. Anonym1ty 23:08, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

It might - but in that case, I think it needs renaming to "active optical repeater". As the repeater article makes clear, there are many types of active repeaters besides this one. And it should be linked from the Repeater page. --Alvestrand 08:06, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

If there are more types of Active repeaters, it only gives more reason for this article to stand on its own, rather than dumping all this content into another article that has already got a recommendation to split on it. This article should encompass all types of active repeaters, if/when enough content exists to make seperate articles, then this would become the disambiguation page. Anonym1ty 16:39, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

At the moment, repeater doesn't list a single type of repeater that *isn't* active... --Alvestrand 17:09, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

I see a number of issues here:

This article is attempting to be about a repeater in an optical communications link - the title should be changed to reflect that, as Alvestrand says, repeater only deals with active ones. In fact it is arguable that a repeater has to be active,

The content of this article is, at best, not particularly good. A repeater in the optical comms sense is the OEO type mentioned at the start - the optical signal is received, regenerated electronically, and then retransmitted. The mentioned of 'all optical repeaters' is misleading - they are simply amplifiers and regenerators - a different process to repeating. See optical amplifier.

If you amend the title to something like 'Optical communications repeaters' and excise the irrelevent and wrong information, you end up with a two sentance article consisting of the first two sentances of the current article.

I think the answer may be to include a couple of sentances in repeater mentioning their use in optical networks, move this article to something like Optical communications repeaters and redirect it to repeater. Kcordina 09:50, 1 March 2006 (UTC)