hardware for fibre question ?

Hi,

The tech park I work in has recently been upgraded to fibre with a
connection the main telco backbone (I believe is the commercial equivalent
of JANET). I have 24core fibre line sitting in a patch cabinet awaiting
connection into a 24 port panel. My office is getting 2 cores of this fibre
line and im curious to know what hardware I should be sticking on the end of
it. The patch panel appears to have an RJ45 port (but i could be wrong).

1. Can i get somesort of fibre termination to Ethernet conversion equipment
?

2. Should be place a managed switch on the end of this line (it guess I
would need to have fibre ports and cat5 ports).

3. Not selected an ISP yet. Do ISP normally provide the termination
equipment ?

Thanks for any information, fibre is pretty new to me.
Scott

"scott" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi,
>
> The tech park I work in has recently been upgraded to fibre with a
> connection the main telco backbone (I believe is the commercial equivalent
> of JANET). I have 24core fibre line sitting in a patch cabinet awaiting
> connection into a 24 port panel. My office is getting 2 cores of this
> fibre line and im curious to know what hardware I should be sticking on
> the end of it. The patch panel appears to have an RJ45 port (but i could
> be wrong).
>
> 1. Can i get somesort of fibre termination to Ethernet conversion
> equipment ?
>
> 2. Should be place a managed switch on the end of this line (it guess I
> would need to have fibre ports and cat5 ports).
>
> 3. Not selected an ISP yet. Do ISP normally provide the termination
> equipment ?
>
> Thanks for any information, fibre is pretty new to me.
> Scott
>
>

the router I have has a fibre input module as an option

Fiber termination would not go to a RJ45 jack but a optical port.
Termination is done in pairs.

Before you choose equipment you need to know what you are connection to.

Your first conversation should be with the supplier/contactor of the cable
or building manager.

thanks for reply.

in understand fibre cores are paired. I guess Optical Terminsation equipemt
is what i required. Im not about to purchase hardware, was simply looking to
understand what is involved at the end of my two pair i.e

fibre cores enter building
|
|
24 port patch panel
|
|
optical termination (example product ?)
|
|
router (what type ?)
|
|
my firewall (ethernet, cat5e, Rj45 in/out)
|
etc...


thanks for any information
scott

scott-

You could use something like a layer3 switch (Cisco 3650) or a router (Cisco
just about anything with the proper card to demarc the fiber), or even a
firewall (Cisco PIX 535 with fiber card). It depends on what the carrier is
running on their end, you need to be able to communicate with their device.
For example if you put in a PIX firewall with a fiber card and the carrier
is handing off ATM, it won't work. Fiber is as dumb as copper, what
protocols you run on it determine your connectivity. For example with copper
you can run token ring, ethernet, etc on the same type of cable. Fiber is
the same way.



"scott" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> thanks for reply.
>
> in understand fibre cores are paired. I guess Optical Terminsation
equipemt
> is what i required. Im not about to purchase hardware, was simply looking
to
> understand what is involved at the end of my two pair i.e
>
> fibre cores enter building
> |
> |
> 24 port patch panel
> |
> |
> optical termination (example product ?)
> |
> |
> router (what type ?)
> |
> |
> my firewall (ethernet, cat5e, Rj45 in/out)
> |
> etc...
>
>
> thanks for any information
> scott
>
>

"scott" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> thanks for reply.
>
> in understand fibre cores are paired. I guess Optical Terminsation
> equipemt is what i required. Im not about to purchase hardware, was simply
> looking to understand what is involved at the end of my two pair i.e
>
> fibre cores enter building
> |
> |
> 24 port patch panel
> |
> |
> optical termination (example product ?)
> |
> |
> router (what type ?)
> |
> |
> my firewall (ethernet, cat5e, Rj45 in/out)
> |
> etc...
>
>
> thanks for any information
> scott
>

a fiber module and a switch to plug it into :> example below

http://snipurl.com/o16x

thanks for reply guys.
scott