Originally posted by: spidey07
yes they exist. Look to alcatel.
You needing 100 Base-Fx, or 1000 Base SX/LX?
There are a ton of ways to transport data over fiber so more on what you're trying to do would help. I'm guessing 100/1000 base is what you're looking for.
Needs to be 1000 base SX, but inexpensive. We have a hub-spoke network with a core switch. The core switch has 4 fiber runs coming out of it that go to four different buildings. The fiber coming into each building terminates in a single switch that has 24-48 ethernet ports to serve the devices in that building. The goal here is to expand within one building/area by running more fiber inside that area without home-running back to the core switch. Thus, we want to put a 4-port fiber switch at the end of one of the existing runs, and then run 2-3 more fiber connections out of that switch.
I saw the HP Procurve 2510G-48. This is a combo switch that has 44 10/100/1000 Copper ethernet ports, and 4 SFP/MiniGBIC ports. The cost of this switch is roughly $2570 ($1250 for the switch with empty SFP bays, $1320 for the 4 mini GBIC fiber modules). This switch would work well... but if we can find a purely fiber switch without the copper ethernet ports for less money that would be preferable.
So, to recap:
-- It has to be less than $2500
-- It has to be open ports to populate with miniGBIC fiber modules, OR work with 1000 Mb SX connections.
-- It needs to have at least 4 fiber ports/bays
Thanks!
Epsil0n