Fiber Optics or Virtualization Connects Two Buildings Together

When you have a large establishment, there may come a time when you have to connect two separate buildings together in order to share the network resources. For instance, your establishment may have a front office building and an educational facility that is 500 feet away. As both structures will need to share the same information, and stretching an Ethernet cable may be impractical as it is exceedingly far away, you may need to consider implementing fiber optics or a method of virtualization for this data sharing.

Fiber Optics

The connection distance that is supported by fiber optics varies on the relaying devices; however, even the weakest of these can send data more than 1000 feet away. Although this information is provided at amazing speeds, there are a few significant questions that you need to consider when installing such a design.

Are your switches compatible with fiber optic data? Otherwise, you may have to use a device such as a fiber optic-to-Ethernet converter module.

Are you planning on digging a line from one place to another? How do you plan on running the fiber optic connections? If they are underground, there are several potential obstacles you’ll need to compensate for, such as driveways, sidewalks, drainage pipes, phone lines and more.

What kind of conduit are you using? Fiber optic lines can be ravaged by weather, and you want to keep them protected from the human element too. Many organizations will use simple PVC piping to run the fiber optic line underground.

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Virtualization

If you plan on saving yourself a great deal of time in construction and immediate installation costs, providing a more virtual environment may be suitable. Of course, this will assume that both buildings have Internet access. What makes virtualization attractive?

The buildings don’t have to be near each other. Using Cloud-based technologies and storage devices, you can share the same information with users on the other side of the planet if you need to.

Fast transfers of data are possible. Depending on the speed of your Internet connection, data you share in the virtual environment could be delivered nearly instantaneously.

If you are sharing an Internet connection or server application, then fiber optic connections may be what you need. In a virtual environment, the users will still need to access a network in order to connect to the Internet; this could mean setting up an additional DHCP server and firewall. To use a virtual environment could cost as much as it would to install fiber optic capabilities between two buildings depending on the distance between them.

However, virtualization could vastly increase the distance between both locations and enable them to share in a virtual network environment. Before choosing the right deployment for you, consider which option your organization would benefit the most from.

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