Author Archive Fiber-mart

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How to Select the Suitable Copper Patch Panel?

by Fiber-MART.COM In the data center, copper patch panel is an ideal method to create a flexible, reliable and tidy cabling system. Today, various types copper patch panels can be found in the market, such as shielded or unshielded, flat or angled, etc. So how to select the most suitable [ Continue reading…]

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Optical Power Meter – an Essential Tester for Fiber Optic Testing

by Fiber-MART.COM In fiber optic network, whether installing new cable, or troubleshooting existing cable, cable testing always plays an important role in the process. Optical power meter which is widely used for power measurement and loss testing is well known to us. Today, we are going to talk about this familiar [ Continue reading…]

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Understanding OTDR Dead Zone Specifications

by Fiber-MART.COM OTDR (Optical Time Domain Reflectometer), as one of the important fiber optic testers, is most commonly used by technicians or installers to certify the performance of new fiber optic links and detect the issues of existing fiber links. There are some specifications of an OTDR which may affect its [ Continue reading…]

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Industrialization of PLC splitter chip technology

by Fiber-MART.COM Fiber optic communication network has become the cornerstone of today’s world of information transfer. With the further development of the network and increasing market demand for communication bandwidth, the entire communication network at the part between the user’s last ten kilometers and last one kilometer are now using optical [ Continue reading…]

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Name Brands vs Third-Party Transceivers: Which Do You Prefer?

by Fiber-MART.COM You may have a name brand network switch or a name brand router, but it doesn’t mean that you need to pay an expensive cost on name brand transceivers. Though many people still get confused on “third-party transceivers”, there is no doubt that the emergence of third-party transceivers [ Continue reading…]

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Cisco Optical Module Decryption Method

by Fiber-MART.COM Cisco devices can only support Cisco brand optical module. While other brands optical modules absolutely can’t be supported.   If you obstinately plug in the other optical modules into the Cisco port, information like “Unsupport” or “Unknown” will be displayed. The log shows one or several of the following [ Continue reading…]

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The Era of Fusion Splicing Is Coming

by Fiber-MART.COM As fiber deployment has become mainstream, splicing has naturally crossed from the outside plant (OSP) world into the enterprise and even the data center environment. Fusion splicing involves the use of localized heat to melt together or fuse the ends of two optical fibers. The preparation process involves [ Continue reading…]

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What Kind of Single-mode Fiber Should You Choose?

by Fiber-MART.COM As we all know, multimode fiber is usually divided into OM1, OM2, OM3 and OM4. Then how about single-mode fiber? In fact, the types of single-mode fiber seem much more complex than multimode fiber. There are two primary sources of specification of single-mode optical fiber. One is the ITU-T G.65x series, and [ Continue reading…]

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Arista 7050QX Series Switches Compatible Optics

by Fiber-MART.COM Arista 7050 series is the main configuration for today’s 10GbE and 40GbE data centers. The emergence of Arista 7050X series has greatly increased the performance, scalability, density, power efficiency for software and cloud networking. Under the family of Arista 7050X, there are three family branches of 7050QX, 7050TX [ Continue reading…]

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the way to Test a Fiber Optic Transceiver?

by Fiber-MART.COM When optical transceiver was first deployed, verifying the performance of it was straightforward. The entire network was installed and owned by a single company, and if the system worked, extensive testing of the subcomponents was unnecessary. Today, however, most optical networks use components that may come from a variety of [ Continue reading…]

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