AFTER CABLING After the cables are installed and terminated, it’s time for testing. For every fiber optic cable plant, you will need to test for continuity, end-to-end loss and then troubleshoot the problems. If it’s a long outside plant cable with intermediate splices, you will......
30 December, 2019
Fiber Thin strands of highly transparent glass or sometimes plastic that guide light. Core: The center of the fiber where the light is transmitted. Cladding: The outside optical layer of the fiber that traps the light in the core and guides it along – even......
30 December, 2019Fiber optic technology experienced a phenomenal rate of progress in the second half of the twentieth century There are three types of fibers commonly used: Singlemode Fibre(SMF) Multimode Fibre (MMF) Plastic Optical Fiber (POF). They are transparent glass or plastic fibers which allow light to......
30 December, 2019
THINK your broadband internet connection is fast? Two separate research groups have just lapped the field, setting a world record by sending more than 100 terabits of information per second through a single optical fibre. That’s enough to deliver three solid months of HD video-......
05 September, 2019
The US National Security Agency has access to the internal networks of Google and Yahoo – and this time even company executives had no idea they had been tapped. Thanks to documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, we know that tech giants including Google,......
18 January, 2018AFTER CABLING After the cables are installed and terminated, it’s time for testing. For every fiber optic cable plant, you will need to test for continuity, end-to-end loss and then troubleshoot the problems. If it’s a long outside plant cable with intermediate splices, you will......
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Fiber Thin strands of highly transparent glass or sometimes plastic that guide light. Core: The center of the fiber where the light is transmitted. Cladding: The outside optical layer of the fiber that traps the light in the core and guides it along – even......
30 December, 2019 No commentFiber optic technology experienced a phenomenal rate of progress in the second half of the twentieth century There are three types of fibers commonly used: Singlemode Fibre(SMF) Multimode Fibre (MMF) Plastic Optical Fiber (POF). They are transparent glass or plastic fibers which allow light to......
30 December, 2019 No comment
THINK your broadband internet connection is fast? Two separate research groups have just lapped the field, setting a world record by sending more than 100 terabits of information per second through a single optical fibre. That’s enough to deliver three solid months of HD video-......
05 September, 2019 1 Comment
The US National Security Agency has access to the internal networks of Google and Yahoo – and this time even company executives had no idea they had been tapped. Thanks to documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, we know that tech giants including Google,......
18 January, 2018 1 Comment