FOLS to Demonstrate Interoperability of High-Speed Fiber Optics

April 26, 2001 The Fiber Optics LAN Section (FOLS) of the Telecommunications Industry Association (www.tiaonline.org) has announced that it will hold an interoperability demonstration of equipment meeting the pending 100Base-SX standard at the upcoming BICSI event in Las Vegas, NV, held May 7-10. The new standard supports Fast Ethernet using 850-nanometer wavelength optics, according to the FOLS, offering a simple and inexpensive upgrade path from 10-Mbit/sec to 100-Mbit/sec Ethernet.

To be run over 300 meters of multimode fiber-optic cable, the demonstration will feature network interface cards (NICs), media converters, and small-form-factor fiber-optic connectors from FOLS member companies Transition Networks, Sun Conversion Technologies, IMC Networks, Allied Telesyn, GarrettCom, Tyco Electronics, Lucent Technologies, 3M/Volition, and Micro Linear.