LC Uniboot Fiber Patch Cables for Now and the Future

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In the past years,data center
technologies and cabling structures have changed a lot ,driven by the growing
bandwidth needs. “High density” apparently becomes a keyword of data center. To
bring service to market quickly, data center has to install more and more fiber
optic cables in given space, which makes cable management a growing problem.
More and more new products and technologies have been invented to follow the
trend of high density in data centers. It has become an urgent problem for data
center managers to find a high density routing method which is easy to manage
and save space. Here is a more advantageous high-density fiber routing
solution, LC
uniboot fiber cable, which is designed to solve the mentioned issues
during high-density cabling.

 

LC Uniboot Fiber Patch Cable VS
Standard LC Fiber Patch Cable

 

Compared with other fiber optic
connectors, LC fiber connector has higher density and performance in most
environments, making it a more and more popular choice in many applications.
This is the termination of the uniboot fiber optic jumper with specially
designed LC connectors that have been invented. LC uniboot fiber patch cable,
with its unique structure, has The main differences between the LC uniboot
patch cable and the standard LC fiber patch cable are noticeable. The following
picture shows a LC uniboot patch cable (left) and a standard one (right)
separately.

 

Less Cable Count to Cut Space
Requirements

 

Standard LC duplex patch cables are
usually designed with two cables, each of which is enclosed on two different
cables, with standard duplex LC connectors on each end. The LC uniboot cable
uses only one cable even though it has two fibers.It has a single boot in the
duplex LC connector. The two fibers used for duplex transmission are firmly
enclosed in a single cable, which can cut down the cable count up to 50%
compared to traditional LC duplex fiber patch cords. The space requirement of
cabling can be significantly reduced by LC uniboot fiber patch cable.

 

Easier Polarity Reversal to Increase
Efficiency

 

Polarity changes for LC duplex fiber
patch cable is very inconvenient, especially for high-density cable environments
such as data centers. For traditional LC duplex patch cable polarity changing,
additional tools and fiber cable re-terminating are usually required, which
wastes both time and money. Sometimes, mishandling can cause all sorts of
faults. LC, uniboot cable, polarity reversal is easier. Usually, without
additional tools, polarity can be easily changed through a few simple steps.
Currently, there are many different versions of the uniboot jumper LC. TThe
polarity reversal of them might be different from each other. Two most commonly
used versions of LC uniboot patch cables polarity reversal steps are shown in
the following picture..