Fiber optic aerial cables are used in telecommunication networks that are installed on poles, towers, or other structures above the ground. Aerial fiber optic networks are designed to provide high-speed internet, television, and telephone services to homes and businesses. These … Read More
The protection of fibers and the ability to install adapters, splitters and fusions are essential to cover the necessities of expanding fiber optic networks. To cover these necessities and all the specifications of each project it’s of most importance to … Read More
The estimated lifetime of an optical fiber in a telecom network is 25 years, which led all other cable components to be designed to match this fiber optic cable durability. UV protection on outer cables, resistance to moisture or water, … Read More
In growing and expanding networks it’s sometimes necessary to have a stronger fiber optic signal so it can reach the length needed for data transmission. This can cause troubles with signal power overload in fiber optic receivers. What is a … Read More
Looking at a large amount of fiber optic cables without any guidance can be confusing. The fiber optic cable color code helps to know how to approach these cables identifying them in an easy way. If you want to understand … Read More
What is a Fiber Optic Patch Cable? A Fiber optic patch cable, also called a fiber patch or fiber jumper, is a section of a optical cable that is connectorized on both sides, to interconnect optical cable terminations in ODF … Read More
Each type of network requires a fiber optic cable appropriate to the technical, mechanical and environmental conditions of the place where it will be installed. For that reason, you should know what types of fiber optic cables exist and find … Read More
Driven by high-speed data rate requirements, fiber optic deployment is growing. As fiber optics grow, managing optical transmission networks becomes more difficult. Factors should be considered such as flexibility, future viability, cost of deployment and management, etc, being widely used. … Read More
Air blown fiber cable in the pre-installed tubes or micro tubes is not a new technology, as we can find versions of this system back in the 1982, developed by British Telecom. However, if we compare it to the traditional … Read More
The unshielded twisted-pair cabling is the most common type of network cabling for workgroups and local area networks (LANs). For that reason, today, we are discussing some basics of these networks, explaining more about PoE standards and components. What is … Read More