Converters · EoC

Ethernet over coax: the coax plant's second career

The Industrial EOC Converter models — an application page for a thin but valuable shelf: IP data over the coax that analog cameras left behind.

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Two models, one very common problem

Every analog CCTV estate sits on a coax plant: home-run RG cables from every camera position to the recorder room, installed at real cost and still electrically sound. When the cameras go IP, that coax is either abandoned (and new cable pulled at new cost) or reused — which is what an Ethernet over coax converter does, carrying IP data over the existing coax so the camera positions, the routes and the recorder room all stay where they are. The catalogue documents two industrial models for this job, headed by a DIN-Rail Industrial Ethernet over Coax Extender EoC Converter.

This page is deliberately labelled an application page. The EoC shelf is two models deep — not twenty — and its engineering questions are correspondingly specific: coax quality and length per run, the power question (data over coax and power over coax are separate conversations), and which positions justify reuse versus a fresh pull. Priced against trenching and re-cabling, reuse wins often enough that the two models earn their page.

Model (official product name)SeriesDocumentation
DIN-Rail Industrial 10/100Base-TX (PoE+) Ethernet over Coax Extender EoC ConverterLNK-DEC110Specification captured from the official product page
DIN-Rail Receiver of 4-port Coax to 1-port 10/100Base-TX Ethernet Switch with PoC—Full specification confirmed per model at quotation

The complete Industrial EOC Converter family (2 models) as listed in the manufacturer's catalogue. This is an application-type page: the shelf is two models deep, and the page says so.

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How to specify

Survey the coax before promising it a second career

Coax condition is the specification: cable type (RG-59 vs RG-6), length per run, joints and splitters in the path (splitters are the classic EoC blocker), and corrosion at connectors. A run inventory — position by position — is the inquiry that gets a truthful answer.

Power is separate unless specified

EoC conversion carries data. Whether power can ride the same coax is a model-and-design question that must be asked explicitly per position; cameras that cannot be powered over the coax need local power, which changes the per-position economics.

Reuse vs re-pull, position by position

The honest design is usually mixed: good short coax runs reused, damaged or over-long runs re-pulled (or jumped to fiber). The estate map decides; ideology either way wastes money.

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Where this range is deployed

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Questions buyers ask

Why only two models?

Because EoC is a focused tool, and two industrial models are what the manufacturer documents. The page's job is to help you decide whether the tool fits your estate — not to inflate a shelf.

What data rate does EoC deliver?

Rate depends on the coax run's length and condition — it is a per-run engineering answer, not a headline. The run inventory in your inquiry is what the rate estimate is built from.

Can EoC and fiber work in one migration?

Routinely: coax reuse inside buildings, fiber between them — the same estate architecture as the CCTV page, with EoC as the in-building medium. The migration is designed as one drawing.

Confirm the exact configuration before payment

Send the model name, the distance, the fiber type and the quantity. We will confirm the matching transmitter/receiver pairing, the optical module and the full specification of the exact model in writing before you pay.