Fiber Optics connection

[spiderspain]

My business has Fiber Optic run to my server room where TWC installed their router. Then they go from the router to RJ45 to my SonicWALL 3600.
Question is.....
Using a stepdown from fiber to RJ45, am I losing a lot of speed that I would get going straight fiber?

Question 2, leaving the company setup the way it is can I install a fiber optic card into my computer thus getting straight fiber speed?

 

[greens]

Losing speed?... not exactly - what do you pay for? I doubt you pay for anything that high.
Additionally, what kind of PCs do you utilize? I doubt your network is capable of handling gigabit speeds - let alone anything beyond that.

The fiber is for them - not you. They can have a lot more clients on a fiber line.

Question 2 is more for you. Are you familiar with fiber lines?
Do you have an optical router that could make sense of having your computer connected via fiber and the rest of the company on ethernet? They do make Optical NICs but there is more to it than that. Just like you can't split an ethernet cable and expect it to work. You need routing and a switch.

 

[InvalidError]

1Gbps Ethernet over fiber is exactly the same as 1Gbps Ethernet over cat5e or better as long as you don't have cat5e runs over 100m long or require massive noise immunity. For the typical 3-10m runs between racks, it should make no practical difference.

With 10GBase-T, you may be able to run 10Gbps over cat5e soon.

 

[t53186]

Answer 1. Fiber bringing the internet in goes to a modem/router. Your business changes to copper to route the network traffic, the maximum speed on the copper is the same as on the fiber (whatever you pay for)

Answer 2. No change in speed

 

[jsmithepa]

Don't get all excited because of FIBER man. Comeon now, everybody throw around big words to get you to buy and you are eating it.

Like the others ask, WHAT SPEED ARE YOU PAYING FOR? RJ45, gigabit ethernet is capable of 1 gigabit, so you do the math. If you are indeed paying for OVER 1 gigabit Internet then indeed you will have ground for concern, otherwise you are chasing big words.

Fiber to desktop... they exist but rare and because of rarity VERY EXPENSIVE. U got the dough, go for it. To rest of us, unnecessary.