Fiber Optic Cable Media Converter

A fiber media converter is a simple networking device that connects and translates signals between fiber optic cabling and another type of cabling media such as utp unshielded twisted pair copper ethernet cables as shown below.

Fiber optic cable media converter.

Copper to fiber media converters the most common type of media converter is a device that functions as a transceiver which is used to convert the electrical signal used in copper utp network cabling into light waves used in fiber optic cabling. Fiber optic media converters integrate the fiber optic technology that supports a much larger cable than that of the custom twisted pair copper cables. The 10m and 100m copper cables have a range length limitation of 110 meters. Media converters for utp to fiber links.

The two fiber. Media converters can connect to various optical fiber cable such as multimode single mode or single strand fiber cable. The primary application of a fiber optic media converter is to extend the network farther. Fiber to ethernet converters use a copper transceiver to transform the signal from a utp rj45 ethernet link to one that can be used by a fiber optic transceiver.

Two main kinds of media converters are copper to fiber media converter and fiber to fiber media converter. They are also used in metropolitan area network man. Fiber media converters also known as fiber transceivers or ethernet media converters are simple networking devices that make it possible to connect two dissimilar media types such as twisted pair such as cat5 or cat6 cable with fiber optic cabling. These media converters are used to enable connections of utp copper based ethernet equipment to various optical fiber cable such as multimode single mode or single strand fiber.

For fiber media converters with fiber optic interface of lc st sc mt rj the interfaces on the two media converters can be connected directly by a length of fiber optic patch cable that has the corresponding connector type.