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The answer is yes, and it's a practice widely used in the industry to distribute signals to multiple destinations without degrading the signal quality significantly. Unlike active devices (which require power), splitters operate without electricity, relying solely on the physics of. I'm planning to use a TP-Link MC220L transceiver to convert the optical signal to ethernet. This ethernet will then go through a 1 Gbit/s switch, and rout two ethernet cables to each floor. Optical splitters are passive devices that allow a single fiber optic line to be divided into multiple lines, enabling the distribution of the same high-speed connection to various endpoints.