Mike,

Take a look at Stratos Lightwave. We use their converters all the time for various copper-optical fibre channel applications. Here is one of the products we use often (Copper DB-9 to Optical SC converter):

http://www.stratoslightwave.com/shop/searchstore.asp?categories=1&dd1=60... =86

I have a bunch of these in our test lab. I'd be happy to let you borrow one to test with.

Thanks, Tim

Timothy Naple tnaple@berkcom.com 510-644-1599 VOICE 510-644-1598 FAX 888-812-9040 TOLL-FREE

Berkeley Communications Corporation 2990 San Pablo Avenue Berkeley, CA 94702 http://www.berkcom.com

-----Original Message----- From: Mike Ball [mailto:MBall@datalink.com] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 1:20 PM To: Toasters (toasters@mathworks.com) Subject: FAS250 fibre tape controller --- copper to optical converter

Does anyone know of a unsupported/supported copper to optical converter for the FAS250 copper fibre tape port? Our fibre switches do not support cooper Gbic's, and the LTO tape drives we have only support optical fibre connections (point to point).