What is a fiber optic converter or media converter?
Media converter or optical fiber converter is one of the most widely used hardware in the network field, which is widely used in wireless networks for data transmission or Internet access services.

In simpler words, a media converter is a converter that converts electrical signals to optical signals and vice versa. It is a kind of device that converts copper network and optical fiber into each other; It means that it receives the signals from the copper cables and converts them into optical signals and sends them through the connected cable, and at the destination, it converts the optical signals into electrical signals and returns to the copper cable. turn

If the distance between two devices is greater than the distance of copper cabling, it is necessary to have an optical fiber connection. Optical fiber media converter is used in metropolitan networks and transfers data to customers and centers.

These connections are copper wire to fiber or fiber to fiber. The use of these devices is a flexible and cost-effective solution to extend the transmission distance using the existing cabling infrastructure.

The media converter also enables fiber-to-fiber conversion from multimode fiber to single-mode fiber and provides seamless integration of fiber and copper and different forms of fiber in LAN networks.

What is a single core (BiDi) or simplex (SX) media converter?
Single core media converter or simplex media converter (SX) is also known as bi-directional (BiDi) and helps network administrators to save costs such as material.

To reduce costs, or where there are limitations on available fibers, wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) technology may be used.

WDM uses separate transmit and receive frequencies to communicate in a single-core fiber. This technology emphasizes the fact that optical fibers can carry many wavelengths of light simultaneously without interference between any of the wavelengths. Therefore, a single fiber can carry several signals or channels of different wavelengths simultaneously.

WDM systems are divided into different wavelength patterns of non-dense wavelength multiplexing (CWDM) and dense wavelength multiplexing (DWDM).

Data transmission in single core PBN media converter model BMC-101-SC
The BMC-101-SC PBN media converter sends and receives data through one SM fiber (simplex) instead of two fibers (duplex). This technology is also known as BiDi or two-way. A single-core media converter is usually for longer distances and uses single-mode optical fiber.