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Subject: Re: [Hardware] Dual GBit PCI Card with copper+fiber interface
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Raphael H. Becker wrote:

>we want to connect our copper-GBit segment (in rack) to our "big" LAN 
>using a fiber uplink. We currently uplink with 100MBit FE which becomes
>more and more a bottleneck.
>
>Is there a PCI-card on market with one port GBit fiber and one port GBit
>  
>
Not that I'm aware of.

>Any recommendations (including "new hardware for the system")?
>  
>
In this case I would suggest getting a dual copper gigabit card, like 
the Intel Pro1000MT Dual port cards, and buying a 1000baseSX to copper 
gigabit media converter. (We use Allied Telesyn converters here).

Hope that's of some help.

Regards,

Richard Tector