How to connect 9+1 optical communication lines?

Question

Computer networks

If you create a LAN on optics, then how can you switch the communication lines? It is said that equipment for many ports is very expensive. There is an option with converters, but they also say that all this is unstable and will hang. How is it done differently, or is it done at all?

Answer 1

Who told you this?
Listen to people less and think more with your own head. A
switch from a length of 28 holes for optical modules costs 15
thousand the most, but more expensive. Nothing will hang, converters are blunt pieces of iron, there is nothing to hang there, I have never met a converter in my life that would hang stably with proper operation, unless, of course, everything hangs in a +40 room. If you want a 10 gigabit network, then the equipment is much more expensive there.

Answer 2

In general, the converters hang quietly and the switches too, the main problem is in the power supplies. This is a classic ...
In principle, it is easier to have one switch than a pack of converters.