Fiber Optic Solution

Cabling Solutions for Cisco Nexus 6004 Switch

Cisco system introduced the Nexus series switch in 2008 that are modular and fixed port network switched designed for the data center. The Cisco Nexus series switches ranges from Nexus 1000v, to the newly released Nexus 9516, which are warmly welcomed...

How to Prevent the Damages of a Fiber Optic Network

The fiber optic cable, made up of by a hair-thin glass is typically very fragile. Although the cables have been designed to protect the fiber with a jacket solution, it can be more easily damaged than a copper cable. To ensure long-tern services to your...

Dark Fiber – Is It the Dark Side or the Right Side?

As the optical technology grows more sophisticated and expand into high bandwidth optical backbone connectivity, enterprises are now turning to the private and secure dark fiber network. By leasing dark fibers, network operators can cut down the labor...

Guide to BiDi Optical Transceiver

Pluggable optical transceivers typically use two fibers to send and receive optical signals between switches, firewalls, servers or routers. One fiber is to receiving data from networking equipment, and the other is to transmit data to the networking...

SFP+ DAC Cables for Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series Switch

Driven by the cloud computing and improvement of technology, 21st century witnesses a major shift from traditional enterprise data centers to much larger cloud data centers. These large data centers require a much higher-performance network, and need...

Decoding the Wavelength in Fiber Optics

Wavelength as we have been heard so many times in fiber optics, is not simply the term used to refine the color of the light. The light used in fiber optics in not the one that we can see by our eyes, as we use light in the infrared region which has wavelengths...

Do It Yourself for Your Home Network

Due to continued questions on whether a home user is able to do his own cabling, or if they need to employ the services of a professional, this post is here to inform everyone of the information. For those who have little experience in telecommunication...

Difference Between Twisted Pair Cable and Coaxial Cable

A wire or cable is an indispensable element in communication system for connecting optical devices like optical transceivers, router and switch. Recently the most common cable types deployed in communication system are fiber optic cable, twisted pair...

Graded Index or Step Index Multimode Fiber

Fiber optic cable is the media of telecommunications infrastructure, enabling the transmission of high-speed voice, video, and data traffic in enterprise and service provider networks. We usually see single mode and multimode optic fibers available on...

Wavelength-Converting Transponder in DWDM System

Dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) as an emerging technology in fiber optic network, is devoted to increase the capacity of a single fiber, and thus the entire network in an cost effective way. A basic DWDM system typically includes these main...