Outside-plant fiber-optic cable will now include Corning`s large-effective-area LEAF fiber to improve the performance of high-speed systems and provide capacity to handle future bandwidth requirements of the telecommunications industry. The singlemode non-zero dispersion-shifted optical fiber introduces a performance attribute called "effective area." LEAF fiber has a larger effective area than standard non-zero dispersion-shifted fiber and was developed to meet the emerging 1550-nanometer requirements of medium to long-distance networks that use high-output erbium-doped fiber amplifiers and multichannel dense wavelength-division multiplexing technology.
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