Six USB extender models for the devices that strand at five metres — cameras, touch panels, storage, licence dongles and control surfaces — extended over fiber or UTP.
USB's distance limit is the most quietly expensive number in AV and control design: five metres for USB 2.0 before the specification gives up. Everything beyond that — the touch panel on the far wall, the camera across the studio, the printer in the next room, the licence dongle that must live in a secure rack — needs an extender, and once the distance is building-scale or the path crosses noisy electrical space, the extender medium should be fiber. This family lists six models spanning USB over fiber and USB over UTP, headed by a 4-Port USB2.0 over Fiber Extender for multi-device positions.
USB extension is also the return half of the KVM pattern: video goes one way, the operator's keyboard, mouse and touch come back. Projects that need both on one link should look at the KVM over fiber page; this family serves positions where USB itself is the payload — device relocation, peripheral sharing and secure computing, where the computer stays in the rack and only its ports travel.
| Model (official product name) | Series | Documentation |
|---|---|---|
| 4-Port USB 2.0 over UTP Extender | — | Specification captured from the official product page |
| 4-Port USB2.0 over Fiber Extender | LNK-U4F1-2 | Specification captured from the official product page |
| 4-Port USB3.0 over Fiber Extender | — | Full specification confirmed per model at quotation |
| Single Port USB2.0 to 100Mase-Fx SFP Fiber Network Adapter | — | Full specification confirmed per model at quotation |
| Single Port USB3.0 to Gigabit SFP Fiber Ethernet Media Converter | — | Full specification confirmed per model at quotation |
| USB3.2 Gen1 100m CAT6A Extender | — | Full specification confirmed per model at quotation |
The complete USB extender family (6 models) as listed in the manufacturer's catalogue, covering both fiber and UTP media variants.
State the USB generation (the documented family is built around USB 2.0 devices) and enumerate the actual devices: isochronous devices such as cameras and audio interfaces behave differently from bulk devices such as storage and printers. A device list in the inquiry is worth more than any generic 'USB extension' request.
The 4-port model serves a cluster (keyboard + mouse + touch + dongle) from one extender. Count devices per position; multi-port units at the desk are usually cleaner than stacked single extenders.
The family covers both media. Inside one room on existing structured cabling, UTP variants are economical; for inter-building, electrically noisy or long runs, choose the fiber models. The medium decision follows the path, not the price list.
USB cameras are a standard use — the 4-port fiber model exists for such clusters. State the camera model and USB generation in the inquiry so the pairing is validated before payment.
KVM bundles video and USB as one operator link. This family extends USB alone, for device relocation rather than operator relocation. If you need the screen too, start from the KVM page.
Port power is model-specific and matters for bus-powered devices. List bus-powered devices in the inquiry; the confirmation will state the power arrangement.
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.