Total cost of ownership may not be a major barrier to fiber

Balancing fiber and copper to maximize TCO
Copper is still widely regarded as the best option in most parts of the data center, but there are definitely areas where fiber is becoming a go-to network technology. Maximizing the value of both technologies is possible through fiber to Ethernet media converters that ensure interoperability and free IT managers to freely switch between different cabling formats. The end result is often a cabling architecture that reduces TCO in the data center.

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.