| Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 1 Member | OP Member Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 1 | Ok.... I am not a phone person at all. I just got voluntered to do this at my company. We are looking to aquire a building across the street from our current locaton. I was having a company run 12 fiber lines underground to connect them. Now to get the phones to work I need copper and not fiber lines is what my normal phone support company is saying. He is telling me I need a multiplexer. Now is there another way of doing it.
I have an NEC digital phone system, that is not running on VoIP. I have found boxes that convert fiber to cat5 but I only get 4 pairs for the use on 1 fiber line. That is pretty minimal. Would just hooking it up to a switch not work? I am very uneducated in this and google is just confusing me more.
Thanks Stephen | | | | Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 5,132 Moderator-Vertical, Vodavi | Moderator-Vertical, Vodavi Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 5,132 | Your best bet is to listen to your phone vendor and run copper with lightning protection. While I'm not familiar with any device that simply converts fiber to "4 pairs," I would guess that they would not work with your NEC system.
You could purchase a second system and use the fiber via VoIP to tie the two systems together, depending on the NEC system you have. You could also simulate a T-1 via the fiber and do the same thing. However, your best bet would be copper lines. Hopefully, the fiber is in a conduit.
Best of luck. | | | | Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 15,287 Likes: 3 Moderator-Vertical, Vodavi, 1A2, Outside Wire | Moderator-Vertical, Vodavi, 1A2, Outside Wire Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 15,287 Likes: 3 | The converters really don't provide four copper pairs at each end. What they do is convert two fibers to a 10/100 ethernet connection. They can't be used for your application unless you do what was suggested and install a second system using VOIP to connect them. I'd guess that properly-installed copper cable would be less expensive.
Ed Vaughn, MBSWWYPBX | | | | Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 894 Member | Member Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 894 | my s cents, the company i used to work for had a similar problem, they had a rented facility across the expressway with 200 employees they had 500 pairs run across a pedestrian bridge (with permission) for voice and fiber for data. its the simplest way to go
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