MPO/MTP® Assemblies – the Game Changer of Data Center Cabling
We know that animals take great migrations in order to pursue the better living environment. Similary, people will make some changes to satisfy their increasing demands of life. With the arrival of...
View ArticleWhy Is Cable Management Necessary for Data Center Cabling?
In the communication world, whether data center or field cabling, there are many excellent cabling which make us feel amazing. They look like the art works of a great master, and show the beauty of the...
View ArticleWho Is the Offender to Destroy the Fiber Cables?
Ever since fiber cables have been applied to the communication network, the fiber footprints cover all over the world. Fiber cables are essential components of nearly all modern computer and...
View ArticleCable Ties – Not as Simple as You Think
In cabling system, both fibers or coppers are required cable management. Except the necessary rack, frame or panel, cable ties are also a necessary part of cable management. When we think of cable...
View ArticleWhy Do We Need Optical Fiber to Get to the “Cloud”?
In the past several decades, technologies have evolved almost immeasurably, certainly including the development of data storage. Humankind has always tried to find ways to store information. People...
View ArticleAn Infographic Tells You What Is Dark Fiber
After learning the last week’s blog post about submarine cables, we know that as of 2014, there are 285 communications cables at the bottom of the ocean, and 22 of them are not yet in use. And these...
View ArticleCable Spaghetti: Server Room Cabling Nightmare
Spaghetti is one of the famous and delicious food in the world. However, when a bunch of noodles is in your server room but not your belly, it’s really a nightmare. What does it mean? Obviously, we do...
View ArticleFiber Optic Paves the Way to Internet of Things
You are driving home when you receive an alert from your printer to pick up some ink, since it is running out. While picking up the printer ink, you receive an alert from your refrigerator to pick up...
View ArticleOM3 and OM4 in 40/100G Migration
To meet the continuously increased requirements, data center 40/100G migration is underway. The infrastructure of data centers for the 40G/100G should meet the requirements like high speed,...
View ArticleThe Era of Fusion Splicing Is Coming
As fiber deployment has become mainstream, splicing has naturally crossed from the outside plant (OSP) world into the enterprise and even the data center environment. Fusion splicing involves the use...
View ArticleOptical Power Meter – an Essential Tester for Fiber Optic Testing
In fiber optic network, whether installing new cable, or troubleshooting existing cable, cable testing always plays an important role in the process. Optical power meter which is widely used for power...
View ArticleA Good Fiber Optic Cleaver Helps Cut Out Costly Mistakes
To get good fiber optic splices or terminations, especially when using the pre-polished connectors with internal splices, it is extremely important to cleave the fiber properly. If the fiber ends are...
View ArticleCauses of Mechanical Splice Termination Failures
FTTH (fiber to the home) has become increasingly popular in optical communication industry. Fiber optic termination, as one of the topics which have never been out of fashion in this field, has...
View ArticleWBMMF – Next Generation Duplex Multimode Fiber in the Data Center
Enterprise data center and cloud operators use multimode fiber for most of their deployments because it offers the lowest cost means of transporting high data rates for distances aligned with the needs...
View ArticleSMF or MMF? Which Is the Right Choice for Data Center Cabling?
Selecting the right cabling plant for data center connectivity is critically important. The wrong decision could leave a data center incapable of supporting future growth, requiring an extremely costly...
View ArticleFiber Patch Cable Management
Deploying more fiber optic cable is just the first step to meet the high-bandwidth requirements, strong management over the fiber optic cable is a basic requirement for a successful fiber optic network...
View ArticleSingle Strand Fiber Solution – Is It Right for You?
It has been a long time that fiber optic system has required two strands of fiber to accomplish full duplex communications—one is for transmitting and the other is for receiving. But the emergence of...
View ArticleBasic of Optical Distribution Frame (ODF)
Driven by requirements for high-speed data rate, the deployment of fiber optic has been growing. As the growth of installed fiber optic, the management of optical transmission networks becomes more...
View ArticleUnderstanding OTDR Dead Zone Specifications
OTDR (Optical Time Domain Reflectometer), as one of the important fiber optic testers, is most commonly used by technicians or installers to certify the performance of new fiber optic links and detect...
View ArticleDoes Bend Insensitive Multimode Fiber Make Sense?
As we all know, when optical fiber exceeds a certain bend radius, some amount of light can be lost, causing signal loss. This can happen during installation or anytime during fiber handling, and is...
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