How to Test Fiber Optic Cables
No Commentsby www.fiber-mart.com In this technological world filled by fiber optic systems everywhere, one won’t fail to enjoy the benefits brought by fiber optics in daily life. In a whole fiber optic system, the most essential part should be the fiber optic cable. This cable is made up of incredibly thin [ Continue reading…]
Do You Have Any Idea of Water-Resistant Fiber Optic Cable?
No Commentsby www.fiber-mart.com There is no doubt that fiber optic cables play an integral role in telecommunication industry. Applications like data centers, local area networks, telecommunication networks, industrial Ethernet, and wireless network are all needing fiber optics to ensure smooth connectivity. Each application requires a specific cable design based on performance [ Continue reading…]
QSFP28 100G Transceivers & DAC Guide
No Commentsby www.fiber-mart.com Telecom industry embraces the prosperity of 100G optics market in 2017. With such a bright future, fiber optic market attracts a wide attention, and many vendors want a piece of the pie. The 100G optics like the CFP, QSFP28 modules and cables are varied in different standards. QSFP28 [ Continue reading…]
SMF&MMF 40G QSFP+ Transceiver Overview
No Commentsby www.fiber-mart.com The demand for better network throughput and performance has never ceased. Instead, it has become more and more vigorous. The server consolidation, virtualization, as well as networking-service performance improvements, all these have pushed the necessity for dense 40GbE switch connections in data centers. But when migrating to [ Continue reading…]
Why Choose 10 Gigabit Ethernet?
No Commentsby www.fiber-mart.com Since Ethernet technology came into people’s use in 1970s, Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) has long deminated the local area network (LAN) applications. But when to connect servers to storage area networks (SANs) and network attached storage (NAS) or for server-to-server connections, GbE seems to be not sufficient enough. In [ Continue reading…]
Four Aspects About Multi-mode Fibers
No Commentsby www.fiber-mart.com Data centers are never ceased their steps to bring greater speed and efficiency to telecommunication and datacoms industries. An enormous amount of data is transmitted, gathered and analyzed everyday, all which requires a vast number of high-bandwidth interconnections between data centers, and people. During these interconnections, fiber optic [ Continue reading…]
Three Useful Fiber Patch Cords and Their Use
No Commentsby www.fiber-mart.com With the rapid advancement of fiber optic technology and trend towards optical communications, fiber optic patch cord has realized its great use in high speed data transmission networks, found in routers, fiber patch panels, media converters and even in hubs and switches. Compared to its previous counterpart, fiber [ Continue reading…]
Cable Plant Used in a Fiber Optic Data Link
No Commentsby www.fiber-mart.com A fiber optic data link carries signals for communications, security, control and similar purposes by using transceivers and optical fibers. Designed to protect the fibers, an optical fiber cable should be installed, spliced and terminated with the proper hardware to mate the data link transceivers, and included in [ Continue reading…]
Cost Comparison: Fusion Splicing Versus Pre-terminated System
No Commentsby www.fiber-mart.com Fiber optic joints or termination is a necessary process when installing a network. Every network operators who aim to deploy a next-generation fiber network have to determine how to build a flexible, reliable and long-lasting infrastructure at the lowest possible cost. In general, there are mainly two fiber [ Continue reading…]
What Kinds of Optical Fibers Do You Know?
No Commentsby www.fiber-mart.com Optical fibers can be divided according to the material they are made of. As mentioned in previous post, optical fibers can be made of glass, but they can also be made of plastic. Both of the materials have their pros and cons. The fibers made of glass are [ Continue reading…]