Advice for Cable Manufacturers Looking to Enter the US Fiber Optic Market
No CommentsI’m seeing a trend in the fiber optic industry: Cable manufacturers around the world are looking to develop and qualify cable designs in order to enter the US fiber optic market. Unfortunately, I’m witnessing another trend: Many cable manufacturers don’t do enough research prior to designing their products to meet US qualifications. [ Continue reading…]
Are polymer waveguides in the future for the fiber optic industry?
No CommentsSince the early 1970s, the demand for higher communication and information traffic has caused the optical fiber network to burgeon. In fact, the modern fiber optic network comprises a large part of the Internet backbone. This includes long-distance communication cables containing optical fibers that are routed under the sea and [ Continue reading…]
An Easy Guide to MPO/MTP Polarity
No CommentsNowadays, many data centers are migrating into the 40G and 100G transmission. To prepare for this change, MPO/MTP technology is applied to meet the requirements of high density patching. Typically, a fiber optic link needs two fibers for full duplex communications. Thus the equipment on the link should be connected properly at [ Continue reading…]
Three Media Options for 10GbE in Data Centers
No CommentsWith the added network infrastructure complexity, power demands, and cost considerations, 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) comes to network administrators’ thinking point. While 1GbE connection is able to handle the bandwidth requirements of a single traffic type, 10GbE has been preferred as the ideal solution by customers to meet current and [ Continue reading…]
LC Connector Introduction
No CommentsFiber optic connectors are used to the mechanical and optical means for cross connecting fibers. Fiber optic connectors can also be used to join fiber cables to transmitters or receivers. There have been many types of connectors developed for fiber cable. Single mode networks have used FC or SC connectors in about the [ Continue reading…]
Recommendations for High-speed Fiber Optic cable
No CommentsRecent years, with the developments of 10g transceiver modules, there is a low cost technical solution in the short distance high speed internet connections, it is gigabit high speed cable. These direct attach cables also known as twinax cable, they are different from other common fiber optic cable, whether in the [ Continue reading…]
Why choose fiber optic cleaning products?
No CommentsAll the clean freaks out there, we know what goes through your head when something does not seem clean even when you wipe it spotless. Little fragments of dust seem to be present throughout. In fact dust, dirt, oil and other particles can block signals of your fiber optic network [ Continue reading…]
QSFP+ to 4xSFP+ AOC and QSFP+ MTP Breakout Cable Solution
No CommentsMigration from 10G to 40G is an inevitable trend in data center. Migration means you need new QSFP+ transceiver modules, fiber patch cables and other equipment. Common two methods to migrate from 10G to 40G for short distance are QSFP+ to 4xSFP+ AOC and QSFP+ MTP breakout cable solution. When [ Continue reading…]
OM4 vs. OM5: What’s the Difference?
No CommentsAs the demand for bandwidth, new transmission media must be developed to meet the requirements of users. The latest in optical transmission media is called OM5 fiber. To help you use this advanced fiber to its greatest advantage, this paper describes the basis of OM5 fiber, and highlights the key differences [ Continue reading…]
Five Basics About Fiber Optic Cable
No CommentsA fiber optic cable is a network cable that contains strands of glass fibers inside an insulated casing. They’re designed for high performance data networking and telecommunications. Fiber optic cable carry communication signals using pulses of light, faster than copper cabling which uses electricity. They are becoming the most significant [ Continue reading…]