Network convergence gaining steam

"A driving force of convergence is simplification," said Suby. "Through simplification, obsolete and expensive technologies are retired, moving your business forward without risking the bottom line. Convergence represents a compelling value proposition."

Using media conversion to enable network convergence
The problem with converging network infrastructure is that it also means using less hardware to handle more bandwidth. This can simplify the network, but it often requires advanced cabling and equipment architectures. At the least, many organizations could find themselves needing optical cabling infrastructure as backhaul and in storage setups. In such a system, media converters are necessary to support interoperability between fiber and copper systems. Strategic media conversion can enable organizations to maximize the cost-to-performance ratio of their converged network setup.

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.