[AusNOG] Cable length limits?

[Peter Tonoli]

> From: "Jake Anderson" <yahoo at vapourforge.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, 5 March, 2014 12:09:13 AM
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Cable length limits?
> Media converters can be had pretty cheap these days, I'd be looking in
> to perhaps running those if you are on a budget.
> Otherwise put in smaller switches spread about the place with a fibre
> backbone.

I don't know whether it's just me, but whenever I hear the term "media converter", "single point of failure" comes to mind. My experience is that when there are issues with a network link that has a media converter somewhere, there's a 95% chance that the fault is in the media converter. (perhaps it's just me).

Peter.
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