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A Guide to Optimizing Your Fiber Optic Cable Management

  How safe, efficient, and organized is your fiber optic cabling? That largely depends on your cable management practices. Optimal organization of your networking cables delivers these benefits:   • Enhanced signal integrity by minimizing macrobend losses • Protection of cables from macro-bending damage • Improved accessibility for maintenance and [ Continue reading…]

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Advantages of Jetting Fiber Optic Cable Over Traditional Pulling

What are the advantages of blowing or jetting fiber optic cable vs. traditional pulling?   Pulling and blowing are the two primary fiber installation methods. But each of these techniques can impact the longevity, performance, and return on investment (ROI) of a fiber optic network. If you take into account [ Continue reading…]

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Why should I calibrate fiber optic test and splicing equipment?

  Would you drive a car with a speedometer that gives you faulty readings? How can you tell how fast you were driving? Optical testing equipment that is out of calibration will also cause faulty test readings. A fusion splicer that is out of calibration will produce inferior splices. False [ Continue reading…]

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Fiber Optic Fusion Splicing – Arc Checking and Maintenance

Working with fiber optics takes a delicate hand and some patience. One of the most used pieces of equipment is a fusion splicer. A fusion splicer uses an electric arc to fuse two pieces of optical fiber (glass) together so that light can pass through with no scatter of light [ Continue reading…]

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What is the Purpose of a Power Meter & Light Source?

A Power Meter & Light Source is a low cost way to certify optical fiber. These two pieces of test equipment are used to measure fiber optic light continuity, loss and lastly the actual strength of the optical signal.   Signal Loss   In fiber optics when a beam of [ Continue reading…]

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The Different Types of Fiber Optic Fusion Splicers?

You’ve probably heard the term fusion splicer before, but in case you haven’t – an optical fiber fusion splicer is used to “splice” or fuse two separate pieces of glass optical fibers together – whether the optical fiber type is single mode fiber or multimode fiber. The goal is to [ Continue reading…]

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Detail introduction for MTP and MPO Fiber Optic Connector?

MTP stands for Multifiber Termination Push-on/Pull-off. You can use the term MTP connector or MPO connector, they both indicate the same multi fiber connector style – MTP is just the trademark registered name that USConec uses for their MPO connectors. You typically see these types of connectors in the data [ Continue reading…]

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Different Types of Fiber Optic Cleavers

  If you have ever spliced optical fiber then you know what a fiber optic cleaver is. If you are new to fiber, then the mention of a cleaver may be a new concept. In simple terms, a cleaver is used to cut your fiber so you have two ends [ Continue reading…]

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Why Do You Need a PON Power Meter?

  The requirements for testing fiber optic networks will vary depending on the specific type of network as well as the network designer’s overall test requirements. Regardless of type, there are two basic or generic pieces of Optical Test Equipment that will be used; an Optical Time Domain Reflectomer or [ Continue reading…]

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How Fiber Optic Construction Improves Building Connectivity

The rapid advancement of technology requires the best possible connection, along with a lot of bandwidth. The increase in the use of mobile phones, the cloud, streaming video, the Internet of Things, and other advances require the best possible connectivity. This is particularly true in the workplace. Whether it is [ Continue reading…]

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