The Fiber Driver® EM316EFAN copper to fiber media converter features an Auto-negotiating 10/100Base-TX data port. The copper data port also supports Auto MDI/MDIX, allowing either a straight through or crossover cable to be used when connecting the module to another network device. In addition, the EM316EFAN incorporates Link Integrity Notification (LIN) functionality. With LIN enabled, loss of link at either the copper or fiber data port of the module will cause the other data port to be disabled, effectively ensuring that each side of the data link is made aware that link has been lost at some point along the data path. In this way, switches/routers at each end of the data link can quickly react and redirect network traffic around the existing problem using a link state protocol such as Spanning Tree or OSPF.

The EM316EFAN media converters are available with either a Multimode (MM) or Single Mode (SM) fiber data port. Distances up to 8 km can be reached over MM fiber, and up to 135 km over SM fiber. Single Fiber SM versions are also available, which use proven Fiber Driver technologies to combine TX and RX signals onto a single fiber strand over distances of up to 100 km.