Have you met such challenges during WLAN development under the call for
replacement of copper cables with optical fibers?
High investment for technological upgrade
- Copper cables need to be replaced and redeployed in response to the evolution of the
wireless technology, resulting in repeatedly high investment.
Extra difficulty for O&M due to limited transmission distance and excessive
relay nodes
- Copper cables can only transmit data signals over a distance up to 100 meters so that access
switches are used as relay stations in the long-distance transmission, which adds to the
maintenance efforts.
Poor wireless performance out of step with rapid business changes
- Growth of the wireless service requires continuous upgrade of wireless bandwidth.
- The bandwidth of a traditional Ethernet uplink port is 1 Gbit/s, making APs unable to
unleash their high-speed transmission performance.
Power supply in deploying optical cables for data transmission
- Local power supply requires multi-department coordination and brings problems into
electricity bill accounting and electricity safety.
- Centralized power supply involves indoor nodes, which poses security risks.
Time-consuming troubleshooting and on-site service
- Wireless network faults rarely recur, making it difficult to locate them.
- Most AP faults can be rectified through restart, but on-site service is still required.