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Fiber News & Products
Fiber-optic crossword puzzles serve as training, exam aid
(Feb 3, 2012)
Four puzzles are available for free from Pearson Technologies.
CommScope demos OM4 fiber supporting 100-GbE over 430m multimode span
(Feb 1, 2012)
Public demonstration at Cisco Live London 2012 exceeds last year’s mark of 340 meters.
Custom Cable Industries expands fiber optic, copper assembly capabilities
(Jan 11, 2012)
Company looks forward to achieving FOC certification for fiber assemblies by mid-year 2012.
Paper: 5 ways fiber improves a contractor's bottom line
(Jan 5, 2012)
Corning Cable Systems says fiber's benefits extend beyond the efficiencies gained by end users.
Study sizes up market potential for passive optical LAN
(Dec 22, 2011)
The technology may cut down the amount of fiber-optic cabling in enterprise networks.
White paper discusses LAN and SAN applications for OM4 fiber
(Dec 19, 2011)
CommScope document talks about total cost of ownership, 40/100G and high-speed Fibre Channel.
Siemon adds armored OM3 and OM4 fiber cable assemblies to 40-/100 Gb/s MTP-based line
(Dec 1, 2011)
Siemon says its armored cable offers 7X the crush resistance of standard fiber to protect high-performance channels, eliminating the need for fiber ducting, while cutting material and labor costs by up to 50%.
Passive optical LAN cabling system
(Dec 1, 2011)
TE Connectivity's Optical LAN Solution is based on fiber-to-the-home technology and brings singlemode fiber all the way to the workstation.
Molex debuts ultra-bend insensitive fiber SC/APC cable assemblies for rugged FTTX applications
(Nov 30, 2011)
New indoor- and outdoor-rated cable assemblies and connectors seek to optimize signal transmission in applications where cable routing space is restrictive.
Plastic optical fiber under discussion, on display at OFC/NFOEC
(Nov 1, 2011)
The POF Symposium will include discussion of plastic optical fiber for gigabit-per-second applications.
The Cabling Blog
by Patrick McLaughlin & Matt Vincent
CWA likes what it hears from President Obama during State of the Union
On Tuesday, January 24, as President Barack Obama wrapped up his State of the Union address, the Communications Workers of America issued a statement praising the president "for his focus on creating an America that is built to last with an economy that...
FOA says, 'We have your standard right here ... on one page'
In its January 2012 online newsletter, The Fiber Optic Association stated that it is starting a program "to make standards more accessible to the world of users, contractors, designers and installers." Specifically, the association is creating one-page...
Video demonstrates how to test patch cords for standard compliance
In a five-minute video posted to YouTube, Adrian Young, senior technical support engineer with Fluke Networks, demonstrates the procedures for using the company's Category 5e, 6 and 6A patch-cord adapters with the DTX-1800 CableAnalyzer.In the video Young...
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Are you Ready for 40G and 100G?
Core and edge higher-speed Ethernet equipment from Cisco, Force10, Brocade, and numerous other vendors is on the market today; by 2015, 25% of network equipment ... Sponsored By:
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An Overview of Macrobending and Microbending of Optical Fibers
Bending can increase the attenuation of an optical fiber by two mechanisms: macrobending and microbending. Some bending is of course unavoidable, e.g., shipping ... Sponsored By:
Corning
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Designing a Reliable Cabling Infrastructure for Healthcare Facilities
Hospitals and other medical facilities face daunting new IT challenges as every facet of care increasingly relies on networked electronics. Berk-Tek and Legrand ... Sponsored By:
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Structured Cabling Verification to Vendor Specifications: Marketing Hype or Better for Your Network?
Many structured cabling vendors submit their products to third-party verification programs that perform testing to TIA-568. Some go a step further and have independent ... Sponsored By:
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RoHS/WEEE Overview and Recommendations
The increasing global awareness of the impact that products and the manufacturing processes used to make them has on the ecology has prompted efforts to control ... Sponsored By:
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