The feature of this Product Spotlight is the FRM220-CH08 chassis, an 8-Slot, 1U high, 19" Converter Rack which further compliments the FRM220 Family of Fibre Optic Modems, Converters and Line Drivers.
The FRM220-CH08 is a 1U high 19" Rack, 8 slot modular media converter rack. It provides an economic solution for fibre converter installations in enterprises or central offices.
All critical components, power, management module and interface cards are hot swappable, allowing online field replacement. The hot-swappable power modules can be chosen from AC100-240V, DC18-36. or DC 36-75V. The chassis also has alarm relays. Management is supported by installing an NMC card into slot#1 . A number of cards are available that support different protocols including Ethernet, Voice, Data, transponders, FOM and IMUX.
Whilst the existing 20-slot chassis has proven to be extremely popular, demonstrated by the fact that it's successfully providing transmission across fibre networks for Governments, Defence, Enterprises and Carriers all around the globe, the 8-slot, 1U high chassis fills a real need in meeting requests from our customers.
It provides a compact, economic solution for access to fibre networks. Designed with high availability in mind. All backplane components are passive. While remaining functions, power, management and interface cards are all modular and hot swappable. The FRM220-CH08 has support for dual AC or DC power supplies and the chassis has external alarm replay contacts as standard. Powerful SNMP and Web based management can be provisioned by installing the Network Management Card. Any of the FRM220's diverse range of fibre converter cards can be installed in the chassis. These cards range from 10G Ethernet, SDH/PDH interfaces, C/DWDM Mux and transponders down to POTS and ISDN fibre line drivers.
