...tubing to each fibre within a loose-tube cable. It can be a headache-inducing task if you don’t have the right tools. If you bend the cable or buffer tubes past their recommended bend radius, or if you allow them to kink, you’ll end up with...

Fiber To The Office • Fiber To The Office • The classical network • A classical network consists of a rack with switches and patch panels and outlets in your cable conduit. Between the outlets and the patch panel you use Cat5, 6 or 7 cables. H...

...Connector Rackmount Fiber Solutions •   • Fibre Optic MTP • Cabling infrastructure designed to deliver • mission-critical applications to a data network, • offering reliability, speed and availability • Demand for greater processing power, effic...

Fibre Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) • Fibre Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) • Fibre Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) is a networking standard developed in the early 1980s by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) for operating...

Fibre Optic Connectors. • Fibre Optic Connectors • The ST® connector • , which uses a bayonet locking system, is the most common connector. • The SC connector • features a moulded body and a push- pull locking system. • The FDDI connector • co...

50-µm fibre optic cable • Fibre optic cable. • The background • As today’s networks expand, the demand for more bandwidth and greater distances increases. Gigabit Ethernet and the emerging 10-Gigabit Ethernet are becoming the applications of c...

...Flat, PC, UPC and APC fibre connectors • Flat, PC, UPC and APC fibre connectors • The type of fibre connection determines the quality of the light-wave transmission, and as technology progresses, connections improve. • Flat Connector • The origina...

...Abeo/Opticon Fibre Solutions • The Abeo and Opticon Ranges of Fibre Network Interface Converters and Multiplexers offer great flexibility with exceptional build quality. Every product is available with optional AC or -48V DC Power Supplie...

...less expensive than fibre optic cable • Digital optical cable with plastic-core construction is less expensive than fibre optic cable with a glass core, but it still provides the benefits of optical transmission over short distances. Digital aud...