The 1800 Series is a high performance Optical Switching Converter/Platform that provides protocol independent signal conversion between electrical and optical serial digital video interfaces, thus ideal for low-cost SDI or HD-SDI fiber extension.  The 1800 comes with basic 4 x 4 or 8 x 8 or 16 x 16 array configurations.  However, you can stack them to create an optical switching matrix of unlimited array size.  Standard 1800 units can address up to 1.5 Gb/s data rate with 1310nm wavelength with option to 3.2 Gb/s and 850nm or 1550nm wavelength.

The 1800 is perfect to turn a audio/video routing switch into a true optical switch.  In other words, you can make your own optical switch with a single finger snap with a much lower cost budget, when compared with conventional optical switches.  By combining with 1800 and commercially available digital video routers, optical switching platforms with 8x8 or higher matrix size can be constructed. This modular design allows a cost effective optical switching platform with optimized functions in optical/electrical conversion, audio/video switching and routing control software.

The 1800 design is capable of addressing a variety of non-standard designs.  Contact us to discuss your custom, OEM/private brand and high volume requirements.

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