You've got two buildings on the same campus, or a server room and a switch closet down the corridor. Copper is fine, but you'd rather run fibre for the bandwidth headroom and to dodge EMI from that old air-con unit. The GCR2000SC does exactly that: 10/100/1000Base-T RJ-45 into 1000Base-SX multimode SC fibre, up to 550 m.
No need for a whole rack of gear. One small all-metal box on a shelf, or slide it into an Alloy DCR12 chassis if you're consolidating multiple conversions in one rack unit. Hot-swap either way.
The SC connector means it pairs with the multimode patch panels most Australian campuses already have. Powered by plugpack or USB. Compact enough that it disappears next to your patch panel and you forget it's there — which is exactly what a media converter should do.
550 m of clean gigabit fibre between two points. No signal loss, no middle switch, no 'let's try a longer Cat6 cable' workaround
| 0 | External plugpack |
| 1 | USB |
| brand | Alloy |
| model | GCR2000SC |
| series | GCR2000 |
| copper_port | 10/100/1000Base-T RJ-45 |
| fibre_port | 1000Base-SX multimode SC |
| max_fibre_range_m | 550 |
| connector_type | SC |
| fibre_mode | Multimode |
| chassis_compatible | Alloy DCR12 Series |
| hot_swap | 1 |
| enclosure | All-metal |
