Fiber Optic Solution

What Will Affect the Longevity of Your Fiber Network?

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...

Polarity Management in Ribbon Cable Designs

To maximize the utilization of space and pathway, local area network (LAN) campus, enterprises backbones and data centers nowadays are migrating to higher-density fiber counts to meet system bandwidth needs. Thus, instead of loose tube and tight-buffered...

Choose Copper or Fiber Cabling Solutions for 1 GbE and 10 GbE Infrastructure

It is ususally troublesome for subscribers to select cabling solutions for Ethernet application, especially for those inexperienced end users. 1G and 10G Ethernet network have been widely utilized to provide high-bandwidth services. Fiber and copper cabling...

How to Reduce the Cost of FTTH Architecture

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In our digital world, people increasingly require higher bandwidth to facilitate daily life, whether for leisure, work, education or keeping in contact with friends and family. The presence and speed of internet are regarded as the key factor that subscribers...

Next Innovation – 25G Ethernet

The traditional migration path from 10G to 40/100G is widely acknowledged by network installer. People are turning to upgrade to 40G using QSFP+ transceiver. However, migrating from 10G to 40G is a big jump, optical technicians wonder if there is a better...

40GBASE-SR4 QSFP+ Transceivers – 720187-B21 and QFX-QSFP-40G-ESR4 Illustration

The Ethernet standard relied on duplex fiber cabling with each channel using one fiber to transmit and the other to receive. But for the 802.3ab standard, parallel optics are required to transmit and receive signals. For instance, there are eight fibers...

Introduction to Fiber Optic Pigtails

A smooth connection between cable and other optical devices allows the optical signals to pass with low attenuation and little return loss, which is vital for telecommunication network. Fiber optic pigtails, compared with the regular fiber jumper, is...

How to Clean Fiber Optic Connector

To keep the proper operation of the equipment, regular cleaning and maintenance is fundamental. Fiber optic connector as an indispensable component of optical network, is typically connected with a fiber jumper, then plugs into a switch or router. Telecommunication...

Single-mode Fiber Standard and Selection

Are you turning to deploying single-mode cables to speed up your infrastructure? If yes, let’s say you have made the right choice. In general, single-mode cables are typically categorized into OS1 and OS2 single-mode fibers. Besides this, a variety of...