VOIP Phones with Fiberoptic

Anyone know of VOIP phones that have fiber connections? Our organization has fiber to each desktop. Ethernet (and PoE for that matter) aren't an option. Thanks for any help.

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Joe Beineke
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Thanks. We've considered the converter option, and have decided to avoid it, if at all possible. I appreciate the input.

Reply to
Joe Beineke

It should still be Ehternet over that fiber (100BASE-F for example). In this case you should be able to use a fiber to copper converter with copper 100BASE-TX output, and then plug that into the phone. There may be phones out there with fiber, but it would be a specialty part, and you'll end up paying for it pretty much the same as for a regular phone plus a converter. besides, you'll be limited in your choice of phones (even if they are available)

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Reply to
Dmitri(Cabling-Design.com

Fiber connectors are considerable more fragile than the RJ45 connectors used for wired ethernet. Or USB connectors, for that matter. That and there aren't many places that have put fiber to the desktop. The combination of these factors makes it unlikely you'll ever find a solution for it. It's just too expensive to bother making devices that will have a limited market. And that when installed will probably break the connectors. Breaking those connectors is a VERY expensive proposition. Wired ethernet can just be trimmed a bit (assuming there's at least /some/ slack) and re-attached to the connectors. Fiber requires a rather expensive special optical alignment tool (or glue if you're half-assing it) to reattach something to the fiber.

So your only *effective* solutions are to use converters, use wireless, run a few extra CAT5 cables or use USB phones connected to nearby desktop computers (or heck, softphones for that matter).

-Bill Kearney

Reply to
wkearney99

How are the phones currently connected? Pull some ethernet through there.

miguel

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Miguel Cruz

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