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News Release from: B and B Electronics Manufacturing Company | Subject: EIR and EIS media converters
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 09 February 2006
Converters from fibre to copper and vice
versa
Media converters let users convert to and from fibre-to-copper through hostile RFI and EMI environments and extend the distances up to 2km with multimode fibre and up to 20km with single mode fibre.
B and B Electronics has introduced the Elinx series, EIR and EIS lines of media converters The growth of Ethernet connectivity on the factory floor has driven the expansion of copper and fibre cable installation
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 25 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Fibre optic cable is typically located in factory settings, offering long range and RFI immunity, while copper connections are found on most every piece of control equipment.
The installer is often faced with connecting a piece of copper equipment to a fibre optic Ethernet drop, or a piece of equipment with a copper Ethernet port needs to communicate long distances or in harsh conditions where the distance and immunity properties of optical fibre make it potentially the best medium.
The converters let users seamlessly and accurately convert to and from fibre-to-copper through hostile RFI and EMI environments and extend the distances up to 2km with multimode fibre and up to 20km with single mode fibre.
The rugged EIR industrial Din rail mount package has extended voltage and temperature specifications and the commercial EIS models come in desk, wall or rack mountable packages that include a power supply.
The models have similar features except for voltage and temperature specifications.
Each product comes with options to convert 10/100baseTX signals to 100baseFX either with multimode or single mode fibre.
There is a choice of ST or SC connectors with multimode versions, or single-mode products with SC connectors.
Features include auto negotiation, forced modes for full or half-duplex, and 10 or 100Mbit/s data rates.
Link-fault-pass-through can be enabled and disabled via a dip switch setting.
The link-fault-pass-through allows the network manager to react to a broken link as soon as one occurs.
Other features include: auto MDI-X (auto-cross feature); LEDs for power, link activity, data rate, duplex/collision, store and forward mechanism; broadcast storm filtering; back-pressure; and IEEE802.3x compliant flow control.
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