POTs to Fiber Backbone

[hanluc6933]

Hello All,

Do you any of you have any experience with connecting a POTs line to a fiber backbone? This is for a new building. The idea is to have telco service at the Demarc, via POTs then a fiber back bone heading out to the IDFs. All things telcom are telling me that this is going to be best handled with copper going to the IDFs instead of fiber.

With the fiber solution I am sure it will require me to use a converter at the MDF, from the POTs to fiber, and then a converter at the IDF, from the Fiber to the room.

Has anyone seen this sort of setup in production?

Thanks,

Han

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[trvlr1]

My opinion:
Copper will be far easier to troubleshoot and will have less hardware involved as well as probably being a cheaper solution. What kind of equipment is this going to at the far end? PBX, key system, telephones, VoIP system? in many cases you will have to covert it back anyway to interface with the end user, if you used fiber.

 

[mforrence]

Remember that for mission-critical systems like fire alarm, you'll want a copper-only solution. As was said earlier, copper will be easier and likely lower cost than the conversion electronics.
Mike

 

[cknipe]

We ran into an install where we needed to extend the t1 across a parking lot. The only thing we had to work with was fiber.

we ended up using this company

http://www.rad.com/10/Digital_Cross_Connect/2654/#