Fiber-optic networks explode in popularity for cities

The Longmont Times-Call also reported that Longmont, Col., was yet another city to explore the potential for fiber-opticnetworks for its infrastructure. The city plans to vote on the topic in November.

Fiberoptics solutions provide significant advantages for cities in both administrative operations and utility distribution. Streamlining these areas, improving operations through smart grids and reducing costs due to the sustainability and lower power requirements of fiber cabling are all unarguable benefits. As more cities consider implementation the advantages all become more obvious as well.

In order to optimize fiber installation on a city-wide level and really embrace the benefits of these efforts, cities have to ensure they are utilizing the right media converters as well. Using fiber for utility distribution, smart grid support or any other service requires fiber to copper converters, terminal servers and other technology critical to support and latency minimization. Having the right technology will eliminate many risks while boosting the overall potential of these systems to allow firms a better chance at network infrastructure optimization. While fiber-opticsoffer significant improvements, like many other technologies it requires a specific approach to gain all of them.

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.