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Fiber Optic Backbone
By attaching a fiber optic transceiver, the AUI port can connect your
network to a fiber optic (10Base-FL/FOIRL) cable backbone.
Figure 19: AT-MR820TR on a Fiber Optic Backbone
The advantages of fiber optic cable are as follows:
❑
immune to electromagnetic interference
❑
spans longer distances without attenuation
❑
eliminates grounding problems
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secure from unauthorized taps
10Base-FOIRL.
The IEEE FOIRL (fiber-optic inter-repeater link)
standard limit of a fiber segment is 1 km. The fiber optic cable that
connects two repeaters is limited to 1 km.
10Base-FL.
The more recent IEEE 10Base-FL standard extends a fiber
segment length to 2 km. This applies only to topologies in which one
10Base-FL node connects to another 10Base-FL node.
Fiber Optic
Transceiver
100 Meters
maximum
Category 3-5
UTP cable
wired
Pin to Pin
Fiber Optic cable
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