Fiber becoming essential in the data center
By Max BurkhalterJuly 30, 2013
Of course, this increase in east-west data movement does not come with a reduction in north-south traffic. Instead, outward data bandwidth requirements are also increasing. Traditional cabling architectures are often not up to the task of meeting the flexibility and performance demands created by emerging technologies. Fiber-optic cables are often necessary to support contemporary and near-future data center demands.
Dealing with fiber in the data center
The problem with becoming more dependent on fiber is that it is not interoperable with category cables, which are still going to be a necessary component of structured cabling architectures and other elements of the data center network. Fiber to Ethernet media converters can overcome this issue, positioning IT leaders to identify where they should use fiber, where they can get away with fiber and the best ways to interconnect different aspects of the network.
Perle has an extensive range of Managed and Unmanaged Fiber Media Converters to extended copper-based Ethernet equipment over a fiber optic link, multimode to multimode and multimode to single mode fiber up to 160km.