Is Your Fiber End Face Up to Scratch?
No Commentsby Fiber-MART.COM While it seems we can never hammer home enough the need to properly clean and inspect fiber end-faces since contamination remains the number one cause of fiber link failures, have you ever thought about what exactly you are cleaning and inspecting? Defects on a fiber end-face come [ Continue reading…]
5 FACTS ABOUT YOUR FIBER OPTIC CABLE CONNECTION CLEANLINESS
No Commentsby Fiber-MART.COM Maintaining clean fiber optic cable connections is a vital part of any network installation, but proper cleaning is often overlooked. Check out the 5 facts below, and then make sure you think twice before making a connection without ensuring that your connector’s end faces are clean: #1 – IMPROPER [ Continue reading…]
MPO Cable Testing Overview
No Commentsby Fiber-MART.COM Nowadays, the existing bandwidth is not adequate to meet enterprises’ increasing appetite. In the meanwhile, optical technologies like cloud computing, virtualization and storage area networks are all in the fast development, which pushes the further development of higher-bandwidth tech like 40/100G Ethernet. Thus under this circumstance, new [ Continue reading…]
Our cloud OTDR trace viewer helps you analyze OTDR traces even better.
No Commentsby Fiber-MART.COM A new updated version of the fiber-mart.com Cloud online service has finally been released. It took longer than usual, because this version is packed with new features to analyze OTDR traces, and other possibilities. Thanks to feedback from our customers, we could significantly improve the overall process [ Continue reading…]
Benefits of Fiber Optic and Passive Optical LAN Test
No Commentsby Fiber-MART.COM In recent years, passive optical LANs have gained significant popularity as an alternative to horizontal copper structured cabling in a variety of enterprise spaces. The technology brings fiber out of the riser backbone and data center, and with that comes the need for fiber technicians to test [ Continue reading…]
How to choose the right optical power meter for 850 nm signals
No Commentsby Fiber-MART.COM Key considerations in choosing an optical power meter Optical power meters for testing fiber optic components use semiconductor photodiodes as detectors to generate electrical current proportional to the incident optical power. This photocurrent is then measured, typically with a transimpedance amplifier and analog-to-digital converter, to determine that power. That [ Continue reading…]
Required and useful tools of Fiber Optic Tester
No Commentsby Fiber-MART.COM Fiber Optic Light Source is used as a Fiber Optic Tester very much. It’s a necessity for performing fiber optic network testing to measure the fibre optical loss for both single mode fiber cable and multimode fiber cables. They are designed to cover a variety of wavelength ranges to suit [ Continue reading…]
How to Test Fiber Optic Cables by OTDR
No Commentsby Fiber-MART.COM OTDR, full name of which is optical time-domain reflectometer is one of the most popular method of testing the light loss in the cable plant. In most circumstance, it also indicate an fiber optic testing instrument to characterized the optical fibers. OTDRs are always used on OSP cables [ Continue reading…]
Fiber Optic Cabling Facts: 10 Things You Might Not Know – Part 1
No Commentsby Fiber-MART.COM All over the world, people are really beginning to embrace the power and the flexibility of fiber optic cabling. While the technology behind the new fiber optic cabling installations is not exactly brand new, the applications in which it’s being called to use for are and it’s exciting to [ Continue reading…]
The FOA Reference Guide To Fiber Optics
No Commentsby Fiber-MART.COM Cable Types: (L>R): Zipcord, Distribution, Loose Tube, Breakout Cable provides protection for the optical fiber or fibers within it appropriate for the environment in which it is installed. Fiber optic “cable” refers to the complete assembly of fibers, other internal parts like buffer tubes, ripcords, stiffeners, strength members [ Continue reading…]