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Connecting the 4507R 100 base FX module ports to SM fiber

a.elsherif
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Dear Colleagues

Actually i have a Single Mode fiber infrastructure , and i want to connect the fiber port on the 2950C to that on the cisco catalyst 4507R 100 base FX module. Will this solution work, or i have to reinstall a multimode fiber cable.

Also does any know about the light source installed on the both above mentioned switches(LED, or Laser), the wavelenghts emitted.

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konigl
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The 100BASE-FX ports on the 2950C-24 and on the 24-, 48-, or 4-port modules for the 4507R are meant to be used for transmission over multimode fiber. This fiber can be either 62.5/125 micron or 50/125 micron type.

Your equipment will not work with the single-mode fiber that you have.

You have two choices: either use a pair of 100BASE-FX multimode to 100BASE-FX single-mode media converters (Transition Networks is one of many vendors that make these; http://www.transition.com ), or install new multimode cable. The media converters (part number F-SM-MM-02) will cost you about US$1,300 for two, not including patch cables. Not sure how much it would cost to install new multimode cable, but I bet it is more than $1,300 plus patches.

Light source on the 2950C-24 is 1300nm wavelength LED. Connector type is SC.

On 62.5/125 micron cable, optical transmitter power ranges from -20 to -14dBm; optical receiver sensitivity ranges from -33.5 to -11.8 dBm; link budget is 13.5dB.

On 50/125 micron cable, optical transmitter power ranges from -23.5 to -14dBm; optical receiver sensitivity ranges from -33.5 to -11.8 dBm; link budget is 10dB.

I think is it safe to assume that the optics characteristics on the 4507R are the pretty much the same, since they are standard 100BASE-FX ports; I can't find any optical power information about them. Connector type is MT-RJ, however. So you may need some fiber patch cables with custom connectors (MT-RJ at one end, SC at the other).

Hope this helps.

So in this case, is it posssible to use media converter to convert the single-mode fiber directly to Ethernet,instead of multimode, will it be cheaper?

By the way, what is the wavelenghts emitted from 2950C FX port?

thanks,

Shui