Fiber Optic Solution

Guide to Several Materials in Fiber Optic Cable Construction

Fiber optic cable is considered as one of the most effective transmission medium today for safe, and long-reach communications, and it also offers a number of advantages over copper. In general, fiber optic cable consists of a core, cladding, coating,...

Pre-terminated Trunk Cable and MTP Cassette Overview

Per-terminated cabling is a popular type of termination method that has been used by the overall network designers. It provides an plug-and-play solution for links between switches, servers, patch panels, and zone distribution areas in the data center....

100G Direct and Breakout Cabling Solutions

With the emerging high-speed network standards and rapidly advancing technology, fiber optic network is driven to meet the growing demand for faster access to larger volumes of data. Although 10G/40G Ethernet becomes the mainstream of telecommunication...

QSFP28 100GBASE-LR4 and 100GBASE-SR4 Optical Modules Overview

Without denying that the market for 100G data center optics is accelerating, and more and more telecommunication vendors are aiming to seize this opportunity to launch cost-effective 100G solutions. FS.COM also offers a series of 100G optical modules...

Introduction to QSFP to SFP+ Cables

The present 10G network infrastructure has absolutely no more capacity from which we can grow. They just need to scale it up by using 40-Gigabit Ethernet QSFP+ equipped devices and with further scalability options in the near future. But most people may...

Introduction to Several Cable Types

Fiber optic cable usually works as the bridge of two devices for both new cabling installations and upgrades, including backbone, horizontal, and even desktop applications. This is how it works, the conventional electrical data signals are converted into...

250um Loose-tube vs. 900um Tight Buffered Fiber

Choosing the right fiber-optic cable has become more challenging than ever. Factors like the advent of new cable designs, suppliers, changes in fiber specifications, and the many claims of cable performance can confuse even the most seasoned network designers....

SFP and SFP+ Compatibility Issues

Recently, people have gotten the question about whether I can use the SFP transceivers in a 10g SFP slot. Users who purchase a 10G switch wondered if they could use SFP modules in the SFP+ slot (since they both have the same size and use the LC connectors)...

How to Configure RJ45 Pinout

Ethernet cable, as one of the most popular types of networking cable, is mainly utilized to interconnect two wired network devices in the home or the office. Cat 5/cat6, UTP/STP cables are some of this cable type that connects all devices to get a network...

Effective Fiber Cable Assemblies For Data Center Solutions

Recently many data center managers report that network problems occurring at the physical layer are generally related to the fiber cable assembly quality. In practice, the overall performance and reliability of a network is only as good as the cabling...