Plant overview
The ReadyLinks Factory
Fiber to every switch, then the coax and phone pair the plant already has, hundreds of metres past where Ethernet stops.
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Production Floor
An AX-24 in the hall's IDF feeds a sealed, fanless GL-4xCEFH-RPF beside the hot mill over fiber; an EX-24 runs Cat6 inside 100 m, and coax reaches IPC-8C and IPC-4C clients across the hall.
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Telephone Room
An AX-24 brings the fiber in, an EX-24 runs Cat6 inside 100 m, and a GL-24xT on the 66 block turns the plant's CAT3 phone pairs into gigabit links past it.
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Security
One rack in the gatehouse runs every camera: Cat6 inside 100 m, the old telephone pair and coax well past it, all in one ReadyView pane.
Reach on one run
- Single-mode fiber10G LR optic, MDF to each switch10 km
- ReadyLink over coaxRG-6 run on this floor · 900+ m published290 m
- ReadyLink over phone pairCAT3 from the 66 block to the potline · 300 m+ published355 m
- Cat6 Ethernet1000BASE-T channel limit100 m
Runs measured in this model; bars to scale, 500 m full width (fiber not to scale). In the scene, red posts mark 100 m along each copper run, and the red circle is Cat6’s 100 m from the EX-24 in the hall IDF.
Security · gatehouse closet
Every camera, one rack, one pane
Cat6 where it reaches, the plant's old telephone pair and coax where it doesn't. Click a step.
- Cat6 · EX-48 PoE++
- ReadyLink · telephone pair
- ReadyLink · coax
- Fiber · 10G uplink
Reach where Ethernet stops
A plant is measured in hundreds of metres, and Ethernet copper is good for 100. Pulling new fiber to every machine, camera and office means trenching yards, coring walls and stopping lines. Here, fiber goes from the MDF to a handful of ReadyLink switches, and from each switch the coax and telephone pair that are already strung through the plant carry the last few hundred metres, with power on the same cable.
Coax across the whole hall
One GL-4xCEFH-RPF on a column beside the hot mill, sealed to IP67, fanless and rated −40 to 65 °C, reaches clients nearly 300 m down the hall on RG-6, with up to 16 clients on each coax port. It needs no cabinet and no outlet: clients can power it back over the coax.
Gigabit on the old phone wire
CAT3 is rated for 10/100 Ethernet. A GL-24xT patched into the 66 block runs ReadyLink over the same pair, measured at 1.39 Gbps on one pair at 100 m, and powers the client at the far end.
One fiber backbone, one dashboard
Single-mode fiber from the MDF feeds every ReadyLink switch on a 10G SFP+ port. Every switch and client in every building is provisioned, monitored and updated from ReadyView.
Representative install. The plant, building layout, cable routes and equipment placement are examples, and cables and devices are drawn larger than life so they read from the air. Distances are measured along each run in the model. Throughput figures are ReadyLinks' measured results; actual reach, throughput and available PoE depend on the cable, the splitters and the site.