I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank Lynx Networks for their excellent work carried out recently on the farm shop. A special thanks goes to the engineers, Colin and Greg, who were very professional at all times and worked above and beyond the call of duty. They remained polite, courteous (and patient) under very difficult circumstances and were a credit to the company.

Both myself and Baird’s were very pleased with the end result and it was a real pleasure to have dealt with a such a professional company and we will be using Lynx again when we require cabling for the forthcoming extension.

Once again, many thanks for a professional job and please thank all those involved.

Chris J, Baird's Farm Shop

 

Fibre distances

We've compiled a list of fibre optic interface standards and have shown the distances that can be transmitted over different types of cable. Click here for a pdf of the full document or see below for a summary.

 

Fibre type

Standard

FDDI
grade

OM1

OM2

OM3

OM4

OS1

OS2

100BASE-SX

550m

550m

550m

550m

550m

 

 

100BASE-FX

2km

2km

2km

2km

2km

 

 

100BASE-BX

2km

2km

2km

2km

2km

10-40km

10-40km

100BASE-LX10

 

 

 

 

 

10km

10km

1000BASE-SX

220m

275m

550m

550m

550m

 

 

1000BASE-LX

550m

550m

550m

550m

550m

5km

5km

1000BASE-LX10

 

 

 

 

 

10km

10km

1000BASE-BX10

 

 

 

 

 

10km

10km

1000BASE-ZX

 

 

 

 

 

70km

70km

10GBASE-SR/SW

26m

33m

82m

300m

400m

 

 

10GBASE-LR/-LW

 

 

 

 

 

4.2km

10km

10GBASE-LRM

220m

220m

220m

220m

220m

 

 

10GBASE-LX4

300m

300m

300m

300m

300m

4.2km

10km

10GBASE-ER/-EW

 

 

 

 

 

8.9km

22.25km

10GBASE-ZR/-ZW

 

 

 

 

 

 

80km

40GBASE-SR4

 

 

 

100m

150

 

 

40GBASE-LR4

 

 

 

 

 

4.7km

10km

100GBASE-SR10

 

 

 

100m

125m

 

 

100GBASE-LR4

 

 

 

 

 

8.3km

10km

100GBASE-LR10

 

 

 

 

 

8.3km

10km

100GBASE-ER4

 

 

 

 

 

16km

40km