Advantage

When it comes to fiber-optic transceivers, people often compare fiber-optic transceivers with switches with optical ports. The following are the advantages of fiber-optic transceivers relative to switches with optical ports.

First of all, the price of optical fiber transceivers plus ordinary switches is far cheaper than that of optical port switches. Especially, some optical port switches will lose one or even several electrical ports after adding optical module, which can reduce the initial investment of operators to a large extent.

Secondly, because there is no unified standard for most optical modules of the switch, once the optical module is damaged, it needs to be replaced with the same module from the original factory, which brings great trouble to the later maintenance. However, there is no problem in the interconnection between devices from different manufacturers of fiber optic transceivers, so once damaged, they can be replaced with products from other manufacturers, which is very easy to maintain.

In addition, fiber optic transceivers are more complete in transmission range than optical port switches.

Range of application

In essence, optical fiber transceivers only complete data conversion between different media, and can realize the connection between two switches or computers within 0-120km, but the practical application has more expansion.

1. Realize the interconnection between switches.

2. Realize the interconnection between switches and computers.

3. Realize the interconnection between computers.

4. Transmission Relay: when the actual transmission distance exceeds the nominal transmission distance of the transceiver, especially when the actual transmission distance exceeds 120Km, it is a very economical and effective solution to use two transceivers for back-to-back relay or optic-optic converter for relay when the field conditions permit.

5, single multi-mode conversion: when there is a need for single multi-mode fiber connection between the networks, you can use a single multi-mode converter for connection, to solve the problem of single multi-mode fiber conversion.

6. WDM transmission: when the resources of long-distance optical cable are insufficient, in order to improve the utilization rate of optical cable and reduce the cost, the transceiver and WDM can be used together so that the information of the two channels can be transmitted on the same pair of optical fibers.