Advantages to Hard-Wired LAN Ethernet Extenders
Hardwired LAN Ethernet extenders provide several strategic advantages over traditional fiber and wireless LAN extension data solutions: Ethernet extenders offer lower cost (education, acquisition, maintenance and deployment), higher level of security, and high-voltage delivery of PoE (Power over Ethernet) electricity. Wire-based Ethernet extenders require no specialized wireless or fiber expertise for planning, deployment or troubleshooting common interruption issues. Apart from IEEE 802.11 WiFi wireless and by connecting with new or existing hard wired physical cable, Ethernet extenders guard extended LAN data from inclement-weather signal losses and 'over-the-air' decryption and spying on your valuable business data and access to your network. Furthermore long-distance wireless power transmission not feasible over wireless or fiber. 'Plug-and-go' hardwired Ethernet extenders can send wattage where you need it without adding expensive electrical outlet locations. Unlike fiber, LAN extenders can inject electricity in the form of PoE (Power over Ethernet) alongside data using the same pair or extra pairs of wire in a single conduit. Thus, administrative-legal challenges that easily complicate fiber installation trenching are side-stepped.
Exploited in many physical security installations, Ethernet-extended IP surveillance cameras can access power directly through PoE across distances far beyond typical Ethernet bounds. Uses include large penal facilities, college campus wide Internet with additional surveillance security and ad-hoc military-base perimeter security in harsh environs. As anticipated, an extended path resistance truncates the peak range of PoE-lined Ethernet. However, the Enable-IT 865's data and PoE can still transmit up to 3,500 feet in the same wire (usually, but not necessarily, Category-rated twisted pair cabling).
Unconstrained by the typical IEEE 802.3 Ethernet specification range of 328 feet / 100 meters, Ethernet extenders send LAN data over one mile or 2 Km using existing copper (Category-rated, coax, or telephone wiring). 'Plug-and-go' extenders, unlike bridged repeaters, seamlessly transmit at very high speeds. The Enable-IT 860 PRO moves LAN data at full wire speeds of 100 Mbps up to 6,000 feet and the Enable-IT 828 performs at full Gigabit wire speed end to end up to 2,000 feet. Ethernet extender characteristics can perfectly handle physical security, data-storage operations, long-distance networking, marine telecommunications, agriculture, and hospitality & multi-unit residential facilities.
Ethernet extension also favors elevator layouts and large-scale mass-manufacturing, with major elevator installer-integrators choosing Ethernet extenders over fiber to move data and PoE throughout skyscrapers using existing copper feeds. Mining and quarry businesses have likewise been upgrading workplace safety with increased local-area network (LAN) range to enhance monitoring and control systems. Priced at a few hundred dollars each, Ethernet-extender kits form a low-cost, simple, versatile approach for expanded Ethernet LAN reach, sparing the user the weaknesses and complications of wireless and fiber configurations.
Imagine long-range, high-speed data communication supplying its own power through one feed %u2013 at modest cost with no new wiring, undisturbed by wireless signal interference or espionage!
David Conners has been in telecom for almost 30 years, usually as an engineer or architect. He's also worked as a data center networking technician for about 10 years, and he's interested in doing more of that (open to opportunities).
He writes regularly on matters of networking, especially long-distance networking, and his expertise can often be found at http://www.EthernetExtender.com