Serial to Fiber Converters The fiber media converter increases the bandwidth and transmission distance of the local area network (LAN) by allowing the use of fiber and integrating new equipment into the existing cabling infrastructure.
What’s Fiber Media Converter? The fiber media converter is a transfer medium that connects two different types of media. It is usually a device that converts the electrical signal used in unshielded twisted pair (UTP) copper network cabling into light waves used in fiber optic cabling, and vice versa. This type of fiber media converter is called a copper-to-fiber media converter which provides an easy way to introduce fiber into a LAN without breaking existing copper cabling or making changes to copperbased switches. In addition, there is another type of fiber media converter that supports fiber-to-fiber conversion, providing connections between dual fiber and single fiber or between multimode fiber and single mode fiber. Fiber-to-fiber media converters also provide a cost-effective solution for wavelength conversion in wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) applications, which are also known as transponders.
Types of Fiber Media Converters There are a wide variety of fiber media converters available on the market. According to different criteria, fiber media converters can be classified into different types. Let see about serial to fiber media converter.
Serial-to-Fiber Media Converter This type of media converter provides a fiber extension for serial protocol copper connections. It accepts serial data on a port in RS232, RS485, or other format and converts the serial data stream into a fiber optic signal to a matching drive at the other end of the fiber run.