What Is Fiber Optic Media Converter and How to Use It? | FS

[@jihadamr]

Which converter can I use to convert from isp directly to router?

[@hashmatfaraz]

I have one question two fiber is must if connect single fiber obtic cable will work

[@stormbladestudios]

Can i use a SC UPC splitter to split the fiber connection to my main modem router and to my wifi router that have a 15 meters lan cable. Lastly does the A and B can only be use together or either of them can be only use as just one media converter?

[@ang580]

I am connecting an atm machine (rj45 connection) back to a new circuit (rj45 cable). There is single mode fiber available from MDF to where the ATM is, about 200 meters. So can i attach 1 media converter from new circuit to existing fiber and at the end of the nearby ATM closet connect another convertor to fiber box and rj45 going to ATM.

[@MrStrawhat14]

Can I use this on my ISP's fiber line at home so I could use my own router and not the ISP's default router?

[@kabutasvlog8062]

same question i wanted to know if its applicable

[@zacheius7153]

Hello, can I use this to convert my DSL router then connect to the Fiber Optic Media converter which is going to hook up into a fiber Router for me to use?

[@FS_com]

Is it DSL router>Ethernet cable>media converter>fiber optic cable>another DSL router? If so, it is possible.

[@yhencabrias6318]

Sir, is it comptible the non giga switch (10//100base tx) will connect to 10/100/1000 base fx fiber switch?

[@supersayianz]

So let’s say even if the converter is capable of POE, do I still need power in? Power meaning the 12V that was shown in the video to power up the converters

[@runwithdaisy]

hi, I have a question, is it possible to use a SFP module that can go up to 22 KM with a 100M fiber single mode cable? Will this damage the converters?

[@FS_com]

Hi, for your question, it is suggested to add an attenuator for the 22km SFP, for example, a 3dB attenuator might be the usual case for a 22km SFP used with a 100m SMF; if duplex SFP modules are used with duplex fiber cables at the two ends, both of the fiber strands need an attenuator. BTW, transceiver modules with a distance less than 20km usually do not need to add attenuators when used with short-distance fiber optic cables.

[@runwithdaisy]

@@FS_com Thanks so much! Appreciate it!

[@peterpanpixyland]

I'd like to use a fiber link to help minimize the chances of an electrical surge caused by lightning to propagate beyond the fiber. I was hoping to find a pair of small inexpensive devices, where I could simply plug CAT-5 ethernet into each one, and connect the two with devices with a fiber cable. Are there any "media converters" made to directly accept the fiber cable without having to buy these separate additional SPF modules?

[@FS_com]

Hello, we would like to recommend you our unmanaged media converter>www.fs.com/products/101464.html It has a built-in 1000Base-X module and you can use SC 50/125μm or 62.5/125μm multimode fiber optic patch cables and Ethernet cables without additional optical modules.

[@peterpanpixyland]

@@FS_com Do you happen to have any of the single mode kind, that can transmit and receive over a single (rather than dual) fiber cable?

[@FS_com]

@@peterpanpixyland We can provide customized products to match your needs. May you please provide us your email address? A sales rep will get in touch with you as soon as possible. Or you can contact our sales team via [e-mail].

[@kabutasvlog8062]

can i use fiber to lan just because my adsl router has more option than the isp router?

[@ryoichipark85]

Goodday! I hope you can help me. You see I bought a media converter for fiber to ethernet. I am planning to use it as a direct conversion between mu fiber line (the fiber ineternet direct line from the box) to my router using the media converter. Is that advisable? Also does the A and B media converter have differences because I think I bought B media converter. I already tried doing it (connecting from fiber line to media converter directly to my router since the router I bought doesn't have a fiber port) but the 2 lights for fx is not blinking. I don't know if my media converter is broken or anything but all of the 4 lights are blinking (all 3 tx lights and 1 fx the most below one is blinking) and the 2 lights in fx is not blinking. I hope you can help me. Thank so much!

[@ryoichipark85]

My media converter looks like this like.www.amazon.com/images/I/41tBtiBoMCL._AC_SY400_.jpg

[@FS_com]

Hi Ryoichi, I really wanted to help you but I can not figure out what A or B media converter is. Where did you buy the fiber to Ethernet media converter? If you bought it from fs.com, could you try to contact your account manager or send an email to [e-mail] for after-sale help?

[@adilzhursin156]

Hi! Were you able to solve the problem? I have the exact same thing here. Bought a converter but it didn't work and i dont really get it

[@andrewhart3345]

Hi, my fibre optic cable does not fit in my router. If I buy one of these, plug the fibre optic cable in, then use an ethernet to my router, shoulf it work? Thank you

[@FS_com]

Yes, it is how the media converter works. To plug the fiber cable in, you need an optical transceiver. The matching products can be found on the product page: www.fs.com/c/ethernet-media-converter-1037

[@klymur]

Why was your ping time 19ms with fiber? That makes me concerned about the converter. 2 gigabit switches w/even cat 5e should be < 1ms, no?

[@klymur]

@tgmforum tgmforum I understand throughput as a metric vs latency as a metric. That's not my question though. The distances in this demo, are on the order of a meter or so (they use patch cable), not 600 million meters w/regard to the moon. Latency for fiber for a few meters should, especially for 1-10Gb etherrnet switches, be well under 1ms... it should well under 0.1ms or 0.01ms for GB switches w/fiber interconnects. Also, they are demo'ing a converter... which better not add 19ms of latency... that would be a terrible converter w/that much added latency. I suspect the test at the console isn't actually using the setup on the table, because those numbers are not realistic for that setup. I suspect the 19ms latency is from testing on an actual cross region setup (for example... fiber from AWS's us-east-1 to us-east-2, or from eu-west-1 to eu-west-2 ... docs.aviatrix.com/HowTos/inter_region_latency.html ... not from a table top setup).

[@jaemelo2693]

@@klymur Yea he totally didnt understand what you said lol .. But on another note thanks for pointing out the latency I didnt even pay attention to the CLI and was close to purchasing this to protect my corerouter in the event of a lighting strike. I was hoping to place this between the cable modem the the router uplink spf port but 19ms?! Yea no thanks lol.

[@rongiancarlogiongco6511]

Hi I want to inquire Will a 1/24 PLC Splitter work with a media converter? Gigabit Media Converter > 1/24 Splitter > Media Converter + AP (x24)

[@FS_com]

Hello Sir, if you are planning to use Optical Time Division Multiplexing (OTDM), we'd suggest you use OLT and ONT devices instead of Ethernet media converters. Only when the transmission to the 24 APs is single-way, that is A to B1, B2, B3 ... B24, you can use the method [Gigabit Media Converter > 1/24 Splitter > Media Converter (x24)+ AP (x24)]. But if it is B1 to A, B2 to A, B3 to A ... B24 to A, the transmission is not feasible by only using Ethernet media converters. However, if you are simply looking for an effective way to connect you 24 APs, you can use PoE switches that have 24 RJ45 ports and optical uplink ports; if you want to extend the distance, then you can use Fiber to Ethernet media converters between the switch and the APs.

[@bartclaus4423]

What transceiver modules would you recommend for this scenario?

[@FS_com]

The type of the transceiver depends on how far and the fiber type(single mode or multimode) you want to transmit. Here we use SFP1G-LX-31 that is recommended for distance shorter than 20km.

[@Bamadawg63]

I have a grasp on using the matching media converter boxes and the simplex optic cable. I am getting hung up on the proper module to purchase to extend a Netgear router to another part of the house to my office and straight to my computer over Ethernet. Could you recommend the correct part number(s) to achieve my home extension please! Thank you in advance.

[@FS_com]

Hi, Nathan, you mean you want to connect your Netgear router with fiber port to your computer with Ethernet port, and want to know what devices (optical module or media converter) you can use to achieve this connection, right? Could you tell us the model of your Netgear router and the approximate distance between the router and the computer? So we can check the PNs for your connection.

[@ILOVEGERMANTECHNO]

If you already have SFP at one end, can you use a single media converter?

[@FS_com]

Theoretically feasible. SFP -> optical fiber -> SFP on the media conveter -> Ethernet cable -> end device.

[@wiziek]

@@FS_com I think he meant you can already join these switches directly with fiber, without any media converters.

[@wiziek]

I think this was just for demonstration purposes, if your switches doesn't have SFP ports.

[@JayG0o]

@@FS_com hi, in my case , we have brocade switch with fibre SFP on one end, do we need to use Brocade Gbic on the midea converter end ?

[@ruimipa]

I have a fiber optic port on my room if I use one of these converters does it work ?

[@FS_com]

Hi, Rui. To solve your question we may need to know more information about your fiber optic network. Could you offer us your email address or send your need to our email [e-mail]?

[@PankajSharma-ir7fb]

kindly recommend me a gepon/gpon onu single mode sfp module (Less than 20km).

[@FS_com]

Hi, Pankaj, what model of ONU product do you want to use the GPON ONU module with? We provide only PON OLT SFP modules at present, but if you're willing to tell us your equipment model, we'll try our best to help you figure out what modules are compatible with it.

[@PankajSharma-ir7fb]

@@FS_comThanks for replying. I have a mikrotik Hex S router with sfp port

[@FS_com]

Hi Pankaj, I'm really sorry for replying so late. But it seems that MikroTik Hex S router does not support GPON ONU module according to their document :(. wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/MikroTik_SFP_module_compatibility_table

[@DmitryNMedvedev]

hi, do you think the following schema is possible? [ISP cable router] [media converter] [Mellanox ConnectX-3 CX354A // 10GbE] thanks :)

[@ezmoney25]

my modem has no wan connection, it's just pon or fiber, can I connect it to media converter then using wan connection through router?

[@FS_com]

Yes. In my experience, a media converter can do optical to electrical conversion. But I'm more curious why a modem has no WAN port 😂, because a typical fiber optic modem is supposed to have a WAN port. If you have further questions you may contact our online customer service at fs.com, I think they can give you more professional suggestions.

[@sicsempertyrannis777-z2t]

se puede usar este aparato en vez de un modem?

[@FS_com]

Hola, Luis DV, conversor de medios no se puede usar en vez de un modem. Conversor de medios se utiliza para conversión de medios, tales como conversión de fibra a ethernet o ethernet a fibra. Mientras que modem tiene las funciones complejas, es la conversión de la señal óptica y la conversión de protocolo de interfaz.

[@harishraghavendara6524]

Hello can i use one of these to convert my 1G ethernet to 10G FIBER and connect it directly to my pc with a sfp+ nic - i know still it'll perform at 1g speed but i'm futureproofing my link with the switch

[@FS_com]

Hi, there. Please check out this 1x RJ45 to 1x SFP+ media converter: ecs.page.link/wsnES It can perfectly fit your needs.

[@ramakrishnapothula7276]

can i use media converter to transfer files between computers, and can you please give me the media converter RJ45 female connector pin out with pin description

[@FS_com]

The media converter can convert between copper RJ45 port and optical SFP port. Transmitting data between two PCs will be feasible as long as the connection has been realized. For more product info, you may visit: www.fs.com/c/ethernet-media-converter-1037 If you have any problems, pls feel free to contact your account manager (you might need to log into your FS account).

[@john-fo5xv]

can this be used to get a stable Ethernet connection to a computer?

[@FS_com]

Yes. A fiber to Ethernet media converter can be connected to the computer.

[@stovallfiberixxicommunicat5215]

here goes nothing................................ i was about to purchase 1 OLT and 20-ONTs........ on a 1 mile strech of road , can i use two 1-u chassis and 20- media converter? this will be cheaper and if so ....... how would i seperate each address to each converter? in case someone is doing something bad ? i do not want the cops kicking in my door , looking for someone on my network!!!! do i use static ip? or do i go the route of a olt/ont

[@stovallfiberixxicommunicat5215]

BTW.... i want a 10gig connection

[@FS_com]

Hi Stovall, Currently, our OLT cannot be used with media converters, it needs to be used with ONT, or with a managed switch equipped with GPON stick ONU module. ONT automatically obtains IP address through DHCP. At present, the rate of the PON port of our GPON OLT is upstream 1.25G/downstream 2.5G, which does not support the 10G rate required by customers.

[@crockpot5194]

Does this require you to have fiber optic dsl or any type of telephone internet connection to the home? From an ISP

[@FS_com]

That depends. There are many types of media converter in the market, but sorry that I haven't seen a dsl to fiber or telephone to fiber media converter. Typical ones are Ethernet to Fiber media converters. For example, this 1G media converter (www.fs.com/products/35333.html) has an RJ45 port and a fiber SFP port. It only accepts Ethernet cables with RJ45 plugs in the copper port, while a telephone cable is typically with RJ11 plugs, meaning not feasible; the SFP port only accepts SFP fiber optic transceivers that connect with fiber jumpers. So home users usually buy a pair of these 1G media converters to extend the link distance to more than 100 m.

[@WeMediaProject]

Do you need to have duplex fiber?

[@FS_com]

Hi, Jeff. By "duplex fiber", do you mean if these media converters use duplex fiber? If so, the answer depends on the transceiver it uses. For example, when it plugs in a 1000BASE-X SFP, they need duplex fiber; when it plugs in a 10GBASE BiDi SFP, they need simplex fiber.

[@WeMediaProject]

@@FS_com simplex fiber is a single fiber... correct?

[@FS_com]

Hi Jeff. Yes, a simplex fiber cable has a single fiber. Like these cables: LC simplex single mode fiber patch cable bit.ly/2QBVO9X SC simplex single mode fiber patch cable bit.ly/35ipZs0

[@WeMediaProject]

I'm looking to set up a network over 1 existing fiber, Simplex, Singlemode, LC. This will provide an internet connection that will allow traffic to go both direct over 1 fiber = (Simplex, Singlemode, LC) correct?

[@FS_com]

​@@WeMediaProject Hi, Jeff. Besides this media converter, you may also need fiber optic transceivers if want to connect to Internet. Could you offer us your email? So our technical support guys, who are more professional than me, can find out what devices are suitable for your situation and tell you the answer. Thank you.

[@محمدابراهيم-ح5ج4ه]

Hi FS.com do you have WDM media converter Tx1310/Rx1550 and vice versa for conversion on SM Single core fiber

[@SeLvDoR.]

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[@FS_com]

Sorry, we haven't had WDM media converter yet. 😔

[@DebdutBiswasOnline]

how do I buy your products in India?

[@FS_com]

If you want to buy media converters on FS.COM, you can check this: www.fs.com/c/media-converters-extenders-1037. If you've got any problems, you can contact our professional sales team via [e-mail] for the query, or feel free to consult through online chat.

[@mmushtaq4231]

i conect onu with media conveter with out olt its posibal

[@danalcantara6785]

Why dont you use narrations?

[@FS_com]

Actually, We’ve been looking for qualified narrators to help produce excellent content for our audience. Anybody who wants to join us can leave a message for us.

[@ronykhan540]

price koto

[@akmazam2713]

Excillent

[@FS_com]

Thanks

[@davidrussell8501]

Made as much sense two little boys kissing to me didn’t show where the node, antennas and source of signal plugs into the fiber radio or the fiber connecting to the terminal node controllers, etc. not even how to do an internet brief with your neighboring nodes in your network.

[@IT1AAA]

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