Black Box Explains... Fiber Optic Switch
Fiber Optic Switch.
How secure is your LAN? What’s it connected to? Does it have a back door? What about that shared printer? Can your LAN be infiltrated by hackers, industrial spies, enemy agents, or anyone with the right password? Are you willing to take that chance?
Now Black Box brings you a LAN security switch designed to meet rigorous military standards—the Fiber Optic Switch. Developed for military installations, this switch solves the security problems caused by users who need to connect to both a high-security network and a low-security network or to the Internet from a single PC. Before this switch was developed, such users had to physically unplug one network while using the other. For convenience, some users would connect the two networks with a data switch or plug both networks into a common printer to eliminate the constant plugging and unplugging of connectors.
But ordinary data switches and peripherals are not secure. They can let through a constant stream of electrons—a potential gateway for leaks. But the Fiber Optic Switch creates a physical break between the networks. Users can quickly and easily switch back and forth without risking security.
With a Fiber Optic Switch, one computer can access two networks without jeopardizing security—each network stays completely isolated from the other. So you never have to worry about who’s “tiptoeing“ through your LAN at night.
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