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I need to cost out some switching and figure out how to network a PC to this type of network.

One end

Terminated

Clarifying: This is to connect units in a high rise facility. Each unit has the top picture in a closet. In every other floor in the hallway the cables from two floors are brought together in a panel. Then each panel sends a cable to the basement.

So I'm trying to figure out how to

  1. Attach a PC (via cat5) at the apartment level.
  2. Concentrate the signals from the units at the hallway level and send this down to the basement where it would get sent to a server.
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    I will add that there is a 17.23% chance--depending on how tight that cable tie is in the picture and how many times people have tugged on the connector--that the fiber is now "marginal" and should be metered before use.
    – JasonAzze
    Feb 8, 2013 at 18:51
  • in nutshell it is Optical fiber
    – AminM
    Feb 15, 2014 at 18:34

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That's not a network - that's just the physical medium. More information is on Wikipedia.

The type of connectors you have on top are LC, the connectors you have on the bottom are SC.


LC:

LC connectors


SC:

SC connectors

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    +1 Side note, Orange is OM2 fiber. Aqua is OM3, "better" than OM2 and capable of higher speeds. Yellow is single-mode fiber, used for long distance situations usually.
    – Chris S
    Feb 8, 2013 at 19:04
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SC multimode fiber.

Generally you don't network a computer directly into fiber (although you can buy HBAs for PCs). Normally Fiber is used as a backbone for your network. Switches then connect to this fiber, and connect out to PCs over copper/RJ45.

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