Clearfield has added Fiber Optic Association-approved Certified Fiber Optic Technician training at the company’s Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, Clearfield College campus, and at remote locations around the country. The goal of this new program is to help its customers train the skilled technicians needed to fully capitalize on the rapidly growing demand for residential and business fiber services, as well as support the rollout of 5G and Fixed Wireless
Chile’s president, Sebastián Piñera has inaugurated the last part of the Huawei undersea cable of the Southern Optical Fiber project.The international impact that the project may have, as well as the digital integration of the almost 300,000 inhabitants of Patagonia, includes the great potential of the far south of Chile for research and science.
EXFO has introduced Optical Xplorer™, the industry’s first optical fiber multimeter. The device verifies optical links in seconds, and if faults are suspected, it finds and identifies them automatically. This makes it easier to boost output, improving the quality of work, and speeding up installation.
Optical fiber is sensitive to stress, particularly bending. When stressed by bending, light in the outer part of the core is no longer guided in the core of the fiber so some is lost, coupled from the core into the cladding, creating a higher loss in the stressed section of the fiber. Bend-insensitive fiber adds a layer of glass around the core of the fiber which has a lower index of refraction that literally “reflects” the weakly guided modes back into the core when stress normally causes them to be coupled into the cladding.
OFS has expanded its Rollable Ribbon Cable product line to include connectorized assemblies which offer all the benefits of the original rollable ribbon cable — including a small outer diameter, tight bend radius and flexibility with termination counts of 24 – 864 fibers — now with the option of including MPO, LC or SC connectors.
Enterprise leaders understand how important the Internet of Things (IoT) will be to their companies—in fact, according to a report by McKinsey & Company, 92 percent of them believe IoT will help them innovate products and improve operations by 2020. However, like many business-enabling systems, IoT is not without its growing pains. Even early adopters have concerns about the cost, complexity, and security implications of applying IoT to their businesses. To help you plan your IoT journey, we’re rolling out a four-part blog series. In the upcoming posts, we’ll cover how to create an IoT business case, overcome capability gaps, and simplify execution; all advice to help you maximize your gains with IoT.
Each day that is not spent converting to smart buildings is a day in which valuable financial and environmental resources have been, in effect, wasted. A global qualitative study by Siemens estimates the potential for “self-financing” smart building conversion across 13 countries in commercial buildings, government buildings and hospitals. Using private sector finance solutions known as “Smart Buildings as a Service”, buildings owners can harness savings gained from smart upgrades and then deploy those savings to facilitate self-financing style investment.
The emergence of Smart Buildings have raised a number of cyber challenges, Recent ransomware cyber attacks on Buildings highlights the need for mature and deployment based Frameworks to protect user, services and infrastructure
Multimode fiber is available in different grades, ranging from OM1 to OM5. The main differences are the core size, in microns or µ, and modal bandwidth. In general, the larger the core size the farther the signal needs to travel within the core due to the size of the waves. Larger cores limit the maximum length of the cable Modal bandwidth refers to the maximum signaling rate, or maximum distance. for a given signaling rate. The greater the bandwidth, the greater capacity of a fiber to transmit information. This determines the distance each Ethernet variant can reach over that type of fiber.
Whilst many people think of 5G as a wireless network it is only wireless from the point of the masts that deliver the signal. Everything else is still delivered by traditional cabling systems. Fiber the backbone of all high-speed networks and the cost of ownership is coming down. I see a future where fibre will be the main cabling element of most networks as copper data transfer rates is near to saturation points with current copper-based technologies.
