Author Archive Fiber-mart

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What’s the Difference Between Basic and Smart PDUs?

by www.fiber-mart.com A rack power distribution unit (PDU) is a device with multiple outlets designed to distribute power to networking equipment within a rack, including servers, storage devices and other equipment. For example, let’s say you have a 42U rack cabinet loaded with 42 1U servers, that’s 42 cords you [ Continue reading…]

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7 Advantages of Fiber Optic Cables Over Copper Cables

by www.fiber-mart.com When you’re planning a new network cable installation or considering upgrades to an existing network, you might want to consider using fiber optic cables.   Network fiber cables have some definite advantages over copper cables.   1. Greater Bandwidth Copper cables were originally designed for voice transmission and [ Continue reading…]

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THE GREATEST PROBLEM HOLDING OPTIC FIBER BACK

by www.fiber-mart.com As much as the cost of laying down optic fiber can be, with all the digging up of roads and digging in trenches and creating the cable, it doesn’t even come close to the cost of Video for a company to afford. Surprisingly, TV programming is the biggest [ Continue reading…]

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OTHER FIBER OPTICS BENEFITS

by www.fiber-mart.com There is no quicker way to transmit data through the Internet than to connect your computer to a network using fiber optics cable technologies. The bursts of light sending data through this networking equipment offers rates of connectivity never before seen in the world of information technology, a [ Continue reading…]

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FIBER OPTICS PREDICTING LANDSLIDES

by www.fiber-mart.com Over the years, there have been a number of ways developed in an attempt to figure out how it might be possible to predict landslides. One of the more recent to appear happens to utilize fiber optic cables to create something like a nervous system, or more accurately a spider [ Continue reading…]

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FIBER OPTICS HELPING WITH PREGNANCY TESTS

by www.fiber-mart.com In an earlier post, we discussed the virtue of “going optic” and how America should be rewired, so to speak, with fiber optics – and while we focused primarily on Internet speeds, we would do you a grave disservice if we didn’t talk about all the other exciting developments going [ Continue reading…]

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NEW MEDICAL APPLICATIONS FOR FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY

by www.fiber-mart.com Most people think of fiber optics in relation to internet connectivity, but there are a wide range of fields where this technology can prove useful. In fact, new efforts have been made to take advantage of fiber optics in the medical community.   But just how is this [ Continue reading…]

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USING FIBER OPTICS TO COMMUNICATE IN OUTER SPACE

by www.fiber-mart.com Whew…much of what we talk about this blog seems to be the stuff of sci-fi poetry. Underwater cables spider webbing the world, bringing together our various voices and helping us to communicate. Additionally, a lot of what we talk about seems to be the stuff of sci-fi espionage [ Continue reading…]

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BRITISH RESEARCHERS MAKE FIBER OPTICS EVEN FASTER

by www.fiber-mart.com The UK isn’t known for having especially fast broadband speeds. Last month, a group of business leaders in Britain published a study in which they accused the UK government of having a “poverty of ambition” that has caused the country to lag behind other developed nations in the [ Continue reading…]

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FIBER OPTICS WILL SOON CONNECT REMOTE ARCTIC COMMUNITIES

by www.fiber-mart.com You might think your old DSL connection was slow, but it’s still probably a whole lot faster than the internet connections that reach many of the residents of the Alaskan North Slope and Bering Sea coastline. These folks are still stuck with near dial-up speeds from satellite providers that are [ Continue reading…]

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