What Will Affect the Longevity of Your Fiber Network?
No Commentsby Fiber-MART.COM When deploying a fiber network, people nowadays not only appreciate the high-speed broadband services, but the maintenance of how long it will last. After all, optical fiber is a particular type of hair-thin glass with a typical tensile strength that is less than half that of copper. Even [ Continue reading…]
Why Recommend Fiber Over Copper in 2017?
No Commentsby Fiber-MART.COM 2018 is coming in less than a month, looking back, in the communication field, the old remaining dilemma between fiber and copper is still left behind. People are struggling about whether they should hold on to the tried-and-tested copper cables that are sufficient so far, or make the [ Continue reading…]
Decoding Grade A Connector in Fiber Optic Cables
No Commentsby Fiber-MART.COM With the advances in fiber optic technology and transmission systems, reliable cabling systems are becoming even more important. Active optical equipment, which is often worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, is all connected into the network via the humble fiber optic patch cord or patch lead. The risk [ Continue reading…]
CLEANING: KEEP YOUR FIBER OPTIC NETWORK AT PEAK PERFORMANCE
No Commentsby Fiber-MART.COM Clean fiber optic components are vital for a quality connection between your pieces of network equipment. As network providers are building up to deploy 40G and 100G systems, techs must pay close attention to their fiber optic performance, ensuring data is transmitting quickly and without failure. This [ Continue reading…]
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…]