Product/Service

With Transition Networks' full-featured 100BASE-TX to 100BASE-FX Media Converter, cost-effective integration of twisted pair and fiber optics in Fast Ethernet networks is easier than ever before.

Features

• Operates under heavy traffic loads without excess heat so there is no need for a failure-prone internal fan.
  
• Round trip delay of only 40 bit times - far below the Class II rating of 92 bit times.
  
• N-Way auto-negotiation
  
• Automatically detects and reports loss of link on a connection using Link Pass Through. This feature allows the equipment at the remote end of a link failure to "see" this failure and respond with corrective actions, such as Spanning Tree fail-over links, proprietary trunking links, or failure reports through SNMP or RMON procedures built into the switch, router or hub.
  
• Automatically detects faults in a link using Remote Fault Detection. This feature allows you to troubleshoot a fault, even if it is only in one direction, via a pulse to the link signal on the transmit side of the same connection; alerting the remote device on the same side as the failure.
  
• User-selectable option to select half- or full-duplex modes. Because 100BASE-FX does not allow for auto-negotiation between half or full-duplex modes, the ability to select this manually is critical; ensuring proper use of CSMA/CD Media Access Control.

Applications

Extend Network Distance in Full-Duplex Networks: Used in pairs, this media converter can extend distances between two twisted pair switches or a switch and a server up to 2,000 meters over multimode fiber, or up to 80,000 meters over single mode fiber.

Connect Remote Devices: Using one media converter, a switch with a copper port can be connected to a switch with an existing fiber interface.

Transition Networks, Inc., 6475 City West Parkway, Minneapolis, MN 55344. Tel: 612-941-7600; Fax: 612-941-2322.

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