MultiDyne ACI-2058 - Manual (Page 9)

I NTELLA P ATCH Switches: ACI-2058 User Manual
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auto-ranging input voltages between 90 V AC and 240 V AC. If one power supply fails,
operation is not affected.
The ACI-2058 has two LAN ports that support Ethernet connections and two RS-232 ports
that support the serial interface. You can connect up to 32 I
NTELLA P ATCH switches at once
and control them using one serial port, or any number of I NTELLA P ATCH switches using one
LAN port.
The physical layer switch has a variety of redundant components to ensure uninterrupted
operation:
• The switch has three hot-swappable power supplies, only two of which are necessary for
operation.
• A wide variety of blades (see Blades on page 6) can be installed and removed during
operation.
The ACI-2058 increases the distance capability of each fiber optic connection by
regenerating the optical signal, thereby improving performance and reliability due to reduced
cable and interconnection losses. The ACI-2058 allows standard optical connections to
extend up to various distances, depending on the transceiver module — typically from one
meter to 300–550 meters using multimode transceivers, and up to 10 Km using single-mode
transceivers.
Copper Ethernet connections of 10, 100, or 1000 Mb/second have a signal distance limit of
one hundred meters. The ACI-2058 regenerates these signals as well, so that they can reach
an additional one hundred meters when patched to another device.