I have two Cisco Catalyst 2960-24TC-L switches and would like to connect them using fibre over a distance of 200Meters. According to cisco, the switches has two SFP ports, which I can clearly see on them but my issue is I do not know where or how to proceed knowing that I am not into networking at all. All I want to do is to make sure I am on the same page with the network engineer I will be contracting so they wont be here telling me what they want and not what we need.
Any help will be highly appreciated.
Best Answer
You can use short range SFP optics for this. The Cisco part number is GLC-SX-MM, and the cost is about $75-$100 each (you'll need two). The person installing your fiber should use 50uM multimode fiber (62.5uM is also useable, but you're getting close to the maximum range) with LC type connectors.