LAN and Telecom Cabling Fiber to 50-pair conversion

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Fiber to 50-pair conversion FratorMCSE 04-20-05
Posted by Robert Redelmeier on April 21, 2005, 5:32 am
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> Hello all. I need to replace an old building-to-building
> 50-pair burried cable (for voice) and was wondering if I
> can use an existing Fiber run.

Possibly. That fiber pair is almost certainly good for 10
Mbit/s (most likely more), and 50 voice lines need 3.2 kbit/s,
but that's uncompressed and 100%usage.

> If so. What do I need on each end of the run?
> copper -> > fiber / fiber -> copper device?

> I'll appreciate any input as I'm new at this.

> Regards,

> - Frank



Posted by James Knott on April 21, 2005, 9:42 am
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Robert Redelmeier wrote:

> and 50  voice lines need 3.2 kbit/s,
> but that's uncompressed and 100%usage.

????

A standard voice channel is 64 Kb/s Perhaps you meant 3.2 Mb/s?



Posted by Justin Time on April 21, 2005, 8:52 am
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Hey guys, a couple of things here. Voice channels are only 56 or 64K
when they are digitized. But for the issue about replacing the 50-pair
tie cable. You would need four strands of fiber and four channel banks
having the appropriate interfaces.

All-in-all it would be cheaper and easier to replace the 50-pair with a
new one that is at least Cat3.

Rodgers Platt



Posted by Robert Redelmeier on April 21, 2005, 3:46 pm
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> Robert Redelmeier wrote:
>> and 50 voice lines need 3.2 kbit/s,
>> but that's uncompressed and 100%usage.

> A standard voice channel is 64 Kb/s Perhaps you meant 3.2 Mb/s?

Correct. That post "escaped" early. Note there was no --sig.

I also intended to add that fiber->copper is normally Ma's
stuff. RTs are full of this sorts of gear. OP should talk
to his PBX vendor to see if they have fiber units (likely).

-- Robert

>


Posted by Watson A.Name - \"Watt Sun, th on April 22, 2005, 4:22 am
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> > Robert Redelmeier wrote:
> >> and 50 voice lines need 3.2 kbit/s,
> >> but that's uncompressed and 100%usage.
>
> > A standard voice channel is 64 Kb/s Perhaps you meant 3.2 Mb/s?
>
> Correct. That post "escaped" early. Note there was no --sig.
>
> I also intended to add that fiber->copper is normally Ma's
> stuff. RTs are full of this sorts of gear. OP should talk
> to his PBX vendor to see if they have fiber units (likely).

Used to be. Nowadays it seems everything has gone from circuit switched
to packet switched. But I don't know if that means that inexpensive
used circuit switched gear is available. It may be more economical to
replace the cable.

> -- Robert




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