GarrettCom FT14 - Manual (Page 29)

FT14 and FT14H 10Mb Media Converters Installation and User Guide (09/09)
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2.5 Full / Half-duplex capability
For 10Mb FT14-series Media converters, the twisted-pair to fiber combination
is capable of full-duplex (i.e., simultaneously transmitting and receiving on the same
cable segment) operation. Full-duplex is rarely required at 10Mb, but might occasionally
be desired to connect a 10Mb RJ-45 Switching Hub port over a fiber link to a full-duplex
RJ-45 NIC in a remote server, or to connect one port of a full-duplex Switching Hub via
fiber to another full-duplex 10Mb RJ-45 Switching Hub port.
All the FT14-series operate in transparent half-and full-duplex mode. For half-duplex
traffic, the FT14-series work correctly but do not detect or indicate collisions.
2.6 Link Pass-through, features and options.
The Magnum FT14 Media Converters, regular, non-hardened models, come
without the Link Pass-through feature unless it is specially ordered with the “LP” model.
In this regard, the FT14 models operate the same as the smaller companion product, the
Magnum TF14.
By comparison, the FT14H hardened models come with Link-Pass-through as a
standard feature in order to be used with switches in industrial networks. In managed
networks, the LINK signal on a managed switch (or hub) port is used as an indicator that