American Fibretek, of St. Petersburg, Florida, a USA-based manufacturer of fiber optic transmission and networking equipment, is expanding their media converter offering worldwide by offering one of the smallest hardened media converters available. The AFI9HMEC Series Ultra Mini Media Converter measures approximately 2” by 2” by 1” is smaller than a cellphone and additionally is available in PoE and non-PoE versions.

AFI9HMEC Series

Housed in a mini chassis, these DIN rail mountable devices are ideally suited for connecting field-based equipment such as IP CCTV cameras and industrial controllers to Ethernet networks over long distances using multimode or single-mode fiber. Fiber connectivity is determined by separate SFP device for number of fibers connector and distance, providing application and site flexibility.

In addition to its beneficial small size, the AFI9HMEC Series offers both 10/100Mbps and Gigabit speed models, The PoE models deliver up to 30 watts and meet the IEEE802.3AT standard.

We’ve seen in increased demand for a very small size media converter to fit very confined spaces in the field in many IP video surveillance situations. Even our existing media converter variants were not small enough. We challenged the engineering team to make it even smaller, and the AFI9HMEC Series was the result,” stated Donna Poulos, AFI President. “This one product family covers so many applications. We believe it will have great appeal to the Security Market,” said Poulos.

Environmental extreme conditions

These hardened media converters work in all environmental extremes and are guaranteed to work for the life of the installation. The entire AFI9HMEC Series is TAA compliant and the company believes they will have great appeal to federal, state and local entities who require TAA compliance for their product requirements.

American Fibretek, offers an extensive line of fiber optic video and data transmission equipment that is uniquely designed to meet the needs of the security markets.

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