can this be used to connect the servers including Active directory,dns,plm,sqli,vpn,wds,2 AP, and workstations together?theres a business class router between modem and everything else<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Is there a video or place to learn how to set this up?<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
can it be used without the cat 6?<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>","upvoteCount":2,"answerCount":6,"datePublished":"2018-03-27T00:11:17.000Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"piercejpierce","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/piercejpierce"},"suggestedAnswer":[{"@type":"Answer","text":"
So I had the bright idea to go from cat 6 rj45 to fiber and I bought fiber cards and wires for all of the servers and work stations in the office( items have not arrived yet). I also bought a switch or what I thought to be a switch… not to sure but it’s a brocade 5000 network switch, after going online and playing with the switch I come to find out it’s a San switch so the questions are.<\/p>\n
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can this be used to connect the servers including Active directory,dns,plm,sqli,vpn,wds,2 AP, and workstations together?theres a business class router between modem and everything else<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
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Is there a video or place to learn how to set this up?<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
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can it be used without the cat 6?<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>","upvoteCount":2,"datePublished":"2018-03-27T00:11:17.000Z","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/t/new-to-fiber/642760/1","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"piercejpierce","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/piercejpierce"}},{"@type":"Answer","text":"
Why? Fiber is more expensive and the patch cables arent as robust. Sure you can do 10Gbps over them or higher. But with cat6e you can do 10gbps over copper much.<\/p>\n
Sure you can use that for server interconnects and even to the workstations but you may find the brittleness of the cables an issue<\/p>\n
you still run point to point on them between the switches just cat cat5/6 etc<\/p>\n
Only reason I’ve seen this is in ‘sensitive’ environments where electromagnetic emmissions is a real threat, otherwise, esp to the desks fiber is generally more trouble and expense than it’s worth<\/p>","upvoteCount":0,"datePublished":"2018-03-27T04:55:14.000Z","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/t/new-to-fiber/642760/2","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"maxsec","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/maxsec"}},{"@type":"Answer","text":"
part of the reason is there is a very long distance in which Cat 6 does work well with the other reason is 90% of it will be in the server racking meaning it will never move. there is only one wire that will not be in the server racking and it is long (I donno the distance at the moment) but cat 6 cable that is ran has issue one being its so long that is slowing the network/internet on the far side of the business down by 1/10 the speed. I put a switch in between which amped the speed to 1/2 the normal speed .<\/p>","upvoteCount":0,"datePublished":"2018-03-27T11:45:56.000Z","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/t/new-to-fiber/642760/3","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"piercejpierce","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/piercejpierce"}},{"@type":"Answer","text":"
Does your switch also act as a booster?<\/p>\n
Seems cheaper than converting an internal network to fiber…<\/p>\n
Something like this?<\/p>\n