Author Archive Fiber-mart

---

Why Use POE?

Specifying Power over Ethernet brings many advantages to an installation:   Time and cost savings – by reducing the time and expense of having electrical power cabling installed. Network cables do not require a qualified electrician to fit them, and can be located anywhere.   Flexibility – without being tethered [ Continue reading…]

---

How Does POE Work?

Network cables, such as Cat 5e and Cat 6, comprise eight wires arranged as four twisted pairs. In 10 and 100BASE-T Ethernet, two of these pairs are used for sending information, and these are known as the data pairs. The other two pairs are unused and are referred to as the [ Continue reading…]

---

---

A FASCINATING USE OF FIBER OPTICS

Fiber optics are used in a variety of ways to improve people’s lives. One such way is the recent development of a handheld fiber optic probe that’s used to diagnose cancer. Utilizing an ultrafast laser, this probe can perform multiple nonlinear imaging techniques without the need for tissue staining. In other [ Continue reading…]

---

WHY FIBER OPTICS ARE THE FUTURE

For more than 100 years now, the United States has relied on metal wires to send information by transmitting electricity. However, as the country has evolved, it has become clear that metal wires are simply not going to be able to keep up with all of the signals being sent [ Continue reading…]

---

WHEN WAS FIBER OPTIC CABLE INVENTED?

There are many people who believe fiber optics are the future of communication in this country. And for good reason. Fiber optic cables are currently being used to send voice messages, images, videos, and more at the speed of light. The fiber rods are made of glass or plastic and have the [ Continue reading…]

---

---

CRIMINALS ATTACKING FIBER OPTIC CABLES

There are criminals out there; we suppose that terrorists may be a better choice of words, as they attack fiber optic cables in California. Just recently, and for the 11th time within a year, a purposefully severed fiber optic cable was found in the San Francisco Bay Area, according to this article [ Continue reading…]

---

MICROSOFT AND FACEBOOK TO LAY TRANSATLANTIC FIBER OPTIC LINE

The world’s biggest tech companies move a staggering amount of data across the Internet every day. Take Facebook, for example – a company whose 1.65 billion registered users are constantly chatting, uploading photos, and now even streaming live videos to people all across the globe. It takes some serious infrastructure [ Continue reading…]

---

A NEW, FASTER TRANSPACIFIC FIBER OPTIC CABLE GOES ONLINE

Thanks to a joint partnership between Google and a number of telecom companies in East Asia, the fastest transpacific broadband cable in the world is now online. Aptly named FASTER, the cable stretches 5,600 miles from Oregon to two points in Japan. The cable is expected to offer transfer speeds [ Continue reading…]

---

FAST FACTS ABOUT UNDERSEA FIBER OPTICS

It may seem like technology today is especially reliant on wireless data transmission – more and more locations offer free Wi-Fi to patrons and guests, and unlike the days of dial-up, your phone and computer don’t need to be physically connected to something in order to transmit data. Well, while [ Continue reading…]

---

A NEW, FASTER TRANSPACIFIC FIBER OPTIC CABLE GOES ONLINE

Thanks to a joint partnership between Google and a number of telecom companies in East Asia, the fastest transpacific broadband cable in the world is now online. Aptly named FASTER, the cable stretches 5,600 miles from Oregon to two points in Japan. The cable is expected to offer transfer speeds [ Continue reading…]

---