How Much Do You Know About the Ports on WDM Mux/DeMux?
No Commentsby www.fiber-mart.com WDM (Wavelength Division Multiplexing) Mux/DeMux (Multiplexer/De-Multiplexer) is one of the most important components of WDM systems. You can easily find that there are many ports on the Mux/DeMux with 1RU housing. So, how much do you know about them? And why we need them on the equipment? Common Port [ Continue reading…]
A Brief Introduction to CWDM Mux/Demux
No Commentsby www.fiber-mart.com CWDM Mux/Demux is the short name for Coarse Wavelength Divison Multiplexer/Demultiplexer Module, which is a flexible, low-cost solution enabling the expansion of existing fiber capacity. It is based on dielectric thin-film technology designed for integration in low cost Metro and Access networks. Combining with highly reliable passive optics certified [ Continue reading…]
Basic Knowledge of Fiber Optic Patch Panel
No Commentsby www.fiber-mart.com Fiber optic cable has been increasingly applied to meet the need of high speed network. In data centers, the cabling infrastructure turns to be more complicated. Under that situation, keeping good cable management is necessary since messy cabling will cause fiber optic loss and not easy for troubleshooting. [ Continue reading…]
FIBER PATCH CABLES AND THEIR USES
No Commentsby www.fiber-mart.com Fiber patch cables are the backbone of the fiber optics industry. These fiber patch cables are strands of optically pure glass as thin as human hair. These cables carry information via mode of transmission of light. Short patch leads usually made with stranded wire are flexible patch cables. [ Continue reading…]
How to Use Fiber Patch Panel for Better Cable Management
No Commentsby www.fiber-mart.com Cable management is an important aspect of any well designed network. In data center, managing cables or wires helps to maintain basic functionality and protect devices from the clogged airflow due to unorganized and disordered cables. Thus, color coding, splicing enclosure, patch panel and other cable management methods [ Continue reading…]
LC-LC Patch Cable in Data Center
No Commentsby www.fiber-mart.com LC-LC patch cable has already become the main force of high density cabling network infrastructure. To future increase the profits of LC-LC fiber patch cable, manufactures has invented LC-LC patch cables of different features to meet various requirements in data center and increase the network performance. What Kind [ Continue reading…]
100G QSFP28 Fiber Optic Modules and Standards
No Commentsby www.fiber-mart.com The developing of 100G fiber optic transceiver has experienced a lot of challenges, thus various types of 100G fiber optic transceivers are being invented. Many 100G modules appeared on the market for a while and disappeared soon. Now it seems that 100G QSFP28 module will win the competition. [ Continue reading…]
How to Build A Single-Fiber CWDM Network
No Commentsby www.fiber-mart.com In most fiber optic network, dual-way transmission is necessary, which is usually achieved via duplex fiber cable. However, in some cases, simplex fiber cable can also support dual-way transmission like network that uses BiDi modules. For instance, if you used a pair of BiDi fiber optic transceivers with [ Continue reading…]
Common Passive Fiber Optical Splitters
No Commentsby www.fiber-mart.com Fiber optical splitter, also named fiber optic coupler or beam splitter, is a device that can distribute the optical signal (or power) from one fiber among two or more fibers. Fiber optic splitter is different from WDM(Wavelength Division Multiplexing) technology. WDM can divide the different wavelength fiber optic [ Continue reading…]
GPON: Optimal Solution to FTTH
No Commentsby www.fiber-mart.com Recently, the increasing spread of the Internet is the major driver for the development of new access technologies, which demand more capacities carry to bandwidth. Among these technologies, Fiber to the Home (FTTH) appears the most suitable choice. An optimal option for FTTH technology, Gigabit Passive Optical Network [ Continue reading…]