Revisiting fiber for internal networks

Making fiber work internally
While there are plenty of trends making fiber more important in internal networks, there have been many challenges, with cost and deployment issues on the top of the list. Fiber costs are gradually changing as the technology continues to age, though they may not have fallen enough to enable pervasive fiber use. However, many deployment problems have been dealt with. In particular, the ease of use and cost effectiveness of media converters not only makes interoperability much easier in fiber setups, it also allows organizations to interchange fiber and copper to control costs effectively.

Perle has an extensive range of Managed and Unmanaged Fiber Media Converters to extended copper-based Ethernet equipment over a fiber optic link, multimode to multimode and multimode to single mode fiber up to 160km.