Fiber to Copper media converter

[dani_bosch]

Hello,

As Cisco doesn't have any 10GBASE-T transceivers in its portfolio for UCS Fabric Interconnects, is there any way to connect the Fabric Interconnects to a 10GBASE-T infrastructure?? I'm thinking of any sort of a media converter or so...

Thanks,

[dani_bosch]

No inputs on this?

[richbarb]

Hi Dani,

This 10BASE-T standard was introduce mainly to provide high speed conectivity more cheap to servers. Many manufacturers has the 10BASE-T interface built in onboard.

There is a certain difficult to deploy fcoe in the base-t and bring a unified architecture solution.

Another issue is the power consumption, that's so much higher than any SFP fiber port.

Today, the Fabric Interconnect doesn't support 10BASE-T connection and I'm not sure whether will support in the future, maybe in the expansion module.

Regards.

Richard.

[dani_bosch]

I know it doesn't support it...question was: is there any sort of media converter (or something similar) worth the purchase to put somewhere between Fabric Interconnects and 10GBase-T LAN of the customer?

[richbarb · Accepted solution]

There is no "converter", you need a new switch to do that, like a Nexus 5596T.

You're welcome.

[leechunte]

Maybe you could try this solution

[Walter Dey]

Looks to me like a bulky, ugly box.

Q. is this a active managed (or unmanaged) network component (snmp ?)

Specification of the vendor

http://www.dawnraytech.com/bbs/board.php?bo_table=product&wr_id=82&sca=7

I would never propose such a solution (what happens in a TAC case ?)