APPLICATIONS OF FIBER MEDIA CONVERTERS
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- Extend the life of legacy networking equipment and wiring plants
- Connect a variety of cabling types (translate between electronic and light signals)
- Coax cable
- BNC, Mini BNC
- UTP (twisted pair) Category 4, 5, and 6
- Copper RJ-45
- Multimode fiber
- Single mode fiber
- SFP, SFP+ and XFP standard wavelength transceivers
- SFP, SFP+ and XFP CWDM transceivers
- ST, SC, LC and MT-RJ connectors
- Dual and single fiber
- Support different communication protocols
- 10M, 100M, Gigabit and 10G Ethernet
- 10G OTN (Optical Transport Network)
- T1/E1/J1
- T3/E3/DS3
- Serial RS-232, RS-422, RS-485, RS-530
- SONET (OC-3, OC-12, OC-48 and OC-96)
- Fibre Channel
- Protocol Transparent, supporting data rates up to 11.32 Gbps
- Extend the range of the connections in your network by using fiber optic cabling
Fiber optic connectivity is necessary when the distance between two network devices exceeds the transmission distance of copper cabling. Copper-to-fiber conversion using media converters enables two network devices with copper ports to be connected over extended distances via fiber optic cabling.
When expanding the reach of the LAN to span multiple locations, media converters are useful in connecting multiple LANs to form one large campus area network that spans over a limited geographic area.
As premises networks are primarily copper-based, media converters can extend the reach of the LAN over single-mode fiber up to 160 kilometers with 1550 nm optics.
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