If you’ve begun incorporating the use of 10G communications in your operations for motion control or other advanced, high-speed industrial communications, one of the challenges you’ve likely encountered is the typically short range available for these fiber transmission systems.
To address that issue, Aexeon Technologies has released an unmanaged media converter—the FCU-5002-SFP—for point-to-point fiber connections over long distances. Aaxeon is a developer and supplier of device networking and industrial communication products focused on the machine-to-machine and industrial Ethernet markets. This new converter is the company’s first 10G media converter and it offers 2 SFP+ ports and supports 3R optical signal regeneration.
The reason fiber transmission systems typically cannot be run over long distances is that they are easily affected by factors such as noise, dispersion and crosstalk. Essentially operating as a signal repeater/booster, the Aaxeon media converter’s 3R signal regeneration relays or regenerates the optical signal that may have been degraded during the transmission, thereby allowing the signal to reach longer distances.
The FCU-5002-SFP+ complies with with IEEE 802.3ae 10GBaseR and the accompanying SFP plug-and-play modules (sold separately) can extend high-speed communications up to distances of 40km.
Watch the video from Aaxeon below to learn more about this new media converter.
