[57679] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fiber Converters, was RE: DS3 Coax..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dominic J. Eidson)
Thu Apr 17 13:24:20 2003
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 12:23:44 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Dominic J. Eidson" <sauron@the-infinite.org>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <001e01c30504$9d8e69b0$1809d440@CPQ28623125852>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, Christopher J. Wolff wrote:
> Thank you for bringing up fiber converters. I have a comment I was
> trying to bring to the list that escaped this old man's memory.
>
> To the best of my recollection, I have not implemented a fiber converter
> that lasted more than say, 12 months. I've tried different brands with
> no luck.
>
> So, my question is, does a 'ruggedized' fiber/coax/X-baseT converter
> exist?
We have had a lot of luck using Transition Networks media conversion
kits to push 10/100 Fiber across large spans within our buildings..
http://www.transition.com/
I believe one of the following might work for DS3-to-fiber-and-back:
http://www.transition.com/products/mcon_platform/standalone/ds3/scscf30xx.htm
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Dominic J. Eidson
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