Standard
Fiber Optical Switch 1x2 MPO
- Switching time
- 3.5 ms
- Insertion loss, typical
- <0.3 dB
- Optical channels in/out
- 2 LC
Product no 60-00-8258
Private sector
Data hall and cross-connect room
Every passive component costs decibels, and a 1x8 switch costs up to 1.5 dB that nobody budgeted for.
- Area
- Fiber & OT
- Architecture patterns
- 1
- Products used
- 4
The problem
What makes it hard
Here fiber is not a security measure but the infrastructure itself. What matters is A/B paths and the ability to move a whole trunk between two destinations without touching a single patch cord.
Insertion loss accumulates quickly. A 1x8 costs up to 1.5 dB typically, and an MPO trunk with two through-connections costs another 1.5–2 dB. On an 850 nm link with perhaps 8 dB of total budget, that is half the budget before the fiber has even started.
How it is built
A/B path with an optical switch
Two fibers in one cable is one path, and duplicated equipment on a shared breaker is not redundancy.
See the full patternIn the catalogue
Equipment from the catalogue
Built from: Fiber Optical Switch 1x2 MPO 60-00-8258, Fiber Optical Switch 1x4 MPO 60-00-9183, Fiber Optical Switch 1x2 MM WebGUI 60-00-7574 and 1 more below.
Standard
Fiber Optical Switch 1x4 MPO
- Switching time
- 20 ms
- Insertion loss, typical
- <0.8 dB
- Optical
- Multimode 850/1300 nm
Product no 60-00-9183
Standard
Fiber Optical Switch 1x2 MM WebGUI
- Switching time
- 3.5 ms
- Insertion loss, typical
- <0.3 dB
- Durability
- 30.000.000 cycles
Product no 60-00-7574
Standard
Fiber Optical Switch 1x8 LC
- Optical
- Multimode 850/1300 nm
- Connectivity
- IEC 320-C14
Product no 60-00-9188
Reading and references
Explained in
Named customer references are not published. What we can show is the solution area this environment belongs to, and the reasoning behind the design.
Environments
Environments with the same problem
The technology is the same; the buying process usually is not.
- Substation with teleprotectionDelay and channel asymmetry decide whether the protection trips correctly — the link is part of the protection scheme, not a service to it.
- Switching station with SCADA releaseMeasurements must leave the station without opening a way back in.
- Railway signalling installationVibration and a 40-year installation lifetime set the requirements, not the data rate.
- Water treatment and distributionThe distances between pumping stations are set by geography, and the budget has to be calculated rather than assumed.
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Verified credentials
All certifications- ISO 9001 14001ISO certifiedQuality & environmentDownload certificate (JPG)
- Made in SwedenDesigned & built in StockholmSecure supply chain
- NATOCertified TEMPEST supplierSDIP-27 · Level A & B
- Swedish Armed ForcesM-numbered equipmentMain supplier, Total Defence
- Government of SwedenSupplier to Swedish authoritiesPolice · FMV · FOI
- SOFFDefence industry memberExport control frameworks
