Long Branch NJ - December 20, 2016 - Shore Microsystems, the industry leader in the protection of mission-critical Ethernet links, today announced another new Gigabit Fiber-to-Copper Redundant Link Protector® card for the Network Protection System. The new SM-2701FC card provides media conversion plus redundancy for a GigE Fiber protected interface to GigE copper primary and backup links. The SM-2701FC can accommodate multiple varieties of fiber by installing different SFP modules on the protected interface.