I want to move my BT Openreach fiber box so it's running from my UPS.
Issue is the fiber cable into the building is 10 meters away from I need it to be.
Is there a fiber / optical extension you can buy to overcome this?
Is there a fiber / optical extension you can buy move your FTTP point?
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A standard (internal) SATA cable should be required, Wikipedia has a picture (the required cable is on the left):
This will connect to the one of the yellow SATA ports shown on the bottom left (from GigaByte's webpage for the GA-P43-ES3G):
It may be possible but the cost of the cards may be prohibitive. Copper will give you gigabit and so will most common fiber cards. Once you move into the faster fiber (8-10gbit), the cost will jump. What speed are you trying to attain?
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I believe these boxes support a BBU (Battery Back Up), so it might be interesting to investigate acquiring one of these. I've found some literature that suggests they should "come with" a BBU, though I know that early VDSL modems from BT supported BBUs and didn't come with one (I never chased).
The quote below is from "How to build a Fibre network, Developer Guide", page 5 - I believe this is more targeted at new builds, but it might be worth asking / pushing for.
Page 8 of the same document shows the connector and notes potential issues due to contamination... unfortunately it doesn't name the connector, and I've not found it elsewhere... (it's not a secret... someone will know - @grawity and I suspect SC/APC)
It's worth bearing in mind that fiber doesn't typically get "extended", but rather spliced (fusing the two cores to form one continuous core) due to the losses, reflections, and other degradation to the signal. This isn't something that you'll be able to do yourself, and won't be something that the "standard" OpenReach guys can do either...
A user on the BT forums mentions a phone number for the FTTP team ref.
This said... you could get a coupler, and a "singlemode" SC/APC cable (if our suspicions are correct about the connector and fiber type). This might work, but due to the nature of what you're dealing with, we cannot be sure.
For example:
As an alternative, it may be worth looking into powering the router using PoE. I do this for my VDSL modem which is in an inconvenient corner of the house with no power - one wire and a box provides power and data, and it's also powered by the UPS.