n the first episode of The Cabling Podcast, Cabling Installation & Maintenance (CI&M) editors Matt Vincent and Patrick McLaughlin chat about the Fall (Sept./Oct) issue of the magazine (00:42), where the recipients of CI&M’s 2021 Cabling Innovators Awards winners are honored (1:01).
Driven by unprecedented demand for Gigabit and fast emerging 10 Gigabit Broadband, Fiber to the Home (FTTH) deployment is expected to reach record numbers in the coming years.
Siemon has combined 5 data center resources into a single PDF, providing you with pro tips and best practices in order to help you ensure success. Read the full article at: http://www.siemon.com
Leading manufacturers today are working to help prevent fiber endface contamination by introducing fiber adapters with integrated shutter doors that allow you to do away with pesky dust caps.
In this edition of Voices of the Industry, Sean Baillie, Executive Vice President – Marketing & Connectivity Strategy at QTS Realty Trust discusses the state of the colocation data center industry in an interview with Frost & Sullivan’s Gautham Gnanajothi.
Expert opinions vary, but many agree that up to 75% of all fiber network problems are caused by contamination of patch cords, adapters, alignment sleeves or transceivers. Dirty endface connectors in particular are a real hazard to modern fiber-optic networks. The higher the light frequency in a network, the greater its sensitivity to contamination. This means that faster 5G networks, which need every milliwatt of power to function flawlessly, are more vulnerable to contamination.
Can you use the fiber optic cables and testers you already have? See the lane rate of various fiber cables and get tips on testers that will do the job.
Edge computing a fairly amorphous concept that has been around since the 1990s, but thanks to the pandemic, it has given rise to edge computing’s dark horse: the remote worker…
Multi-core fibers increase capacity per system, while uncoupling can reduce signaling complexity and interference.
The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) TR-42.11 Engineering Committee on Optical Systems has issued a call for interest for document TIA-526.7-A initially titled ” Measurement of Optical Power Loss of Installed Single-Mode Fiber Cable Plant, Adoption of IEC 61280-4-2 edition 2: Fibre-Optic Communications Subsystem Test Procedures – Part 4-2: Installed Cable Plant – Single-Mode Attenuation and Optical Return Loss Measurement”.
TR-42.11 is developing guidelines in the area defined by the following scope: “This standard is applicable to the measurement of attenuation and optical return loss of installed optical fiber cable plant containing single-mode fiber. The principles of this standard may be applied to cable plants containing branching devices (splitters) and at specific wavelength ranges in situations where passive wavelength selective components are deployed, such as WDMs, CWDM and DWDM devices. This standard is not intended to apply to cable plant that includes active devices such as fiber amplifiers or dynamic channel equalizers.
