Fibre Converters

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I need to install a couple of phones in a very large underground biosolid storage facility. I have one incoming phone line that terminates at the demarc on a bix which is extended to a single phone at the moment. I am thinking of installing a Norstar 3 x 8 system and extending that single incoming phone line to multiple phones at the far end of the facility. There is currently fibre from the demarc point to the far end for the SCADA systems and there are some spare pairs. I can't run new CAT6 cabling due to the distance and the cost.

My question is - can I install the Norstar system (which is an analog system) and have it run over the existing fibre network?

What do I need at each end? Is this even possible?

http://www.mediafire.com/?mblx6svx1ey4jv3

Thanks.

 

[kwing112000]

you may be able to do this with analog phones and some ATA devices. I know linksys makes some and i am sure there are other vendors. I dont know Nortel but with a small Avaya IP Office you could do some IP phones over the fiber.

Kevin Wing
ACSS Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Communications
ACS- Implement IP Office
ACA- Implement IP Office
Carousel Industries

 

[hawks]

Take a look here they should have what your looking for.

http://www.transition.com/Transitio...on=Stand-Alone+Converter&Topology=POTS+2-wire

 

[jkupski]

How far as we talking here? Analog telephone isn't ethernet, so doesn't require cat6, and can be run to much further distances (3000' feet+). For what you would spend on fiber converters, you could almost certainly pull a couple of thousand feet of cat3--which would support four extensions, not the single extension (I believe) that the Transition devices will give you. Or you could pull 12 or 25 pair and have room for growth, and still be cost competitive with fiber converters for a single pair.

Last, instead of a 3x8 you could do a BCM50 (if you're stuck on Nortel), or something like an Asterisk box, run ethernet over that fiber, and service IP phones, softphones, etc that way. This would likely end up being more expensive up front, but give you the best option long term.