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I'm looking at sending a few bidirectional video signals over a long distance via fiber, and the 2110 3x3G Converter seems perfect, except that it has an RJ45 port, rather than an SFP+ port for fiber.

Has anyone tested running this device or a similar one through a media converter (such as this one from FS.com: https://www.fs.com/products/101476.html?attribute=33620&id=3477729), and how has it worked out? I know that in normal networking it should be no problem, but I don't know if a standard media converter would play nicely with the mroe stringent requirements of SMPTE 2110, and haven't been able to find anything online about it.

Thanks!

We are connecting this converters over fiber with two Zyxel XGS1010-12 switches with FS-com 10gbit FSP modules with no problems. They are connected over VLAN and coexists with other VLANs where we send Dante and local LAN Network. No problems at all. IMHO there should be no problem with 10G media converters.

We are using bi-directional fiber converters from Broadcast Gear. Runs without switches/networks but really stable over 2x LC single mode. They build them in many variations.

In the link below a 4x4 12G-SDI + 1Gbit network set, but we have also a 12x12 12G-SDI set from them. In the future we want to try to expand it with usage of a Blackmagic 2110 IP Converter over the 1Gbit network cards for extra channels if we need that.

https://livestreamrental.nl/item/broadcastgear-fibermux-4x4-4x-12g-sdi-bi-directional-1x-network-set/