[ale] Fiber optic ethernet

[gcs8]

I think he is just looking for a 10/100 transceiver to escape the 100m
limit of cat5e/6.


On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Lightner, Jeff <JLightner at water.com>wrote:

> In the configuration I was speaking of both ends are 10 GigE fibre.   In
> our current setup we have a few hosts/appliances with the 10 GigE HBAs and
> do direct connect between the various ports.   We recently bought a switch
> as we intend to add other hosts but need to connect them to the appliances
> that we can't add more ports to.
>
> However, I don't think that is what you were asking about - I was just
> noting it is one way to go but it might be expensive for home use.
>
> What I *think* you were asking is about something like:
> Each Host and/or your swtich/router between them has standard Ethernet
> port with RJ45 to which you run standard cat 5 cable.
> You want to avoid having the run from host a go to host b (or from the
> switch/router between them) on cat 5 cable because it is  copper and
> susceptible to being zapped by lightning.
>
> What I saw once upon a time to solve this for RJ11 (telephony) was you
> could put a small box near each host that would let you plug in a copper
> cable on one end of the box but would convert the signal to fibre on the
> other end of the box.  You'd then run the fibre cable from that other end
> to one end of the same kind of box at the remote host and then the other
> end of that box would be used to convert the signal back from fibre to
> copper so you could plug in using standard connector.   I'm assuming
> something similar exists for RJ45/cat5 but I've never actually seen that.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> William Bagwell
> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 11:14 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] Fiber optic ethernet
>
> So one end must be a more expensive card or switch? Will search out some
> prices this evening...
>
> William
>
> On Thursday 28 February 2013, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> > I did want to note that 10 GigE cards are actually fibre but do
> > Ethernet so the entire connection can be fibre but of course you’d
> > either have to do direct connections to another fibre card on a server
> > or have 10 GigE switch.   Probably a bit too expensive for a home
> > setup.  We use it here in the office but I didn’t do the pricing so
> don’t know what it costs.
>
>
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