> We are in receipt of a z9, the "mainframe" has been placed over 1.5miles > away from the data center where the printer, etc is. We have single mode > fiber between the two sites. Has anyone used any conversion equipment > utilizing the ESCON multimode channels to single mode and back > to multimode?
Most of the passive converters out there don't work very well, so I'd avoid them. I've had usable results with McData and the older Nortel Optera equipment for slower devices like printers and tape drives.
