Patrice Dubois, president and chief operating officer (COO) of OFS Fitel, LLC, will step up to the position of CEO of OFS, effective July 1. Dubois replace Dr. Timothy Murray in the CEO position. Murray will continue with OFS as chairman. Dubois joined the company in 2001 as general manager of the OFS multimode fiber manufacturing facility in Sturbridge, MA.
Contamination remains the number one cause of fiber link failures. Defects on a fiber end-face come in all types, shapes and sizes. They include scratches, cracks, and pits and contaminants like dirt, dust, oil and even salt. If you properly clean a fiber end-face with lint-free wipes and a specialized solvent designed specifically for fiber cleaning, it’s possible to remove contaminants from the fiber end-face. But what about permanent surface defects like scratches, cracks and pits that can’t be removed via cleaning?
Superior Essex has released its I/O Riser 2×2 Hybrid cable for indoor/outdoor applications and claims the I/O Riser 2×2 Hybrid cable is the first and only communications hybrid cable that is UL Wet Location listed; UL Direct Burial listed for the interlock armored version, and is UL listed for use in both Class 3 as well as Class 2 circuits.
By 2030, millennials are expected to make up 75% of the workforce – and they are demanding a more productive and flexible work environment that enables activity-based working.
Smart offices are the key to meeting these requirements. They use state-of-the-art building technology to improve employee performance and reveal ways to use office space efficiently and economically. With smart office, the space you work in becomes part of the team. Download the White Paper to learn more.
Openreach has selected OFS to deliver innovative products that enable deployment in existing buildings with an almost invisible fibre as part of Openreach’s announced rollout of faster, more reliable and future-proof Fibre-to-the-Premises broadband to reach 4 million premises by March 2021. A major part of this target is to deliver effectively to Multi-Dwelling Units (MDUs), where the task of connecting multiple customers as quickly and as reliably as possible, whilst minimizing disruption, is a key challenge. The OFS InvisiLight® Solution utilizes EZ-Bend® Optical fibre that enables worry free bending around the many tight corners found inside buildings.
Siemon has expanded its comprehensive offering of WheelHouse Advanced Data Center Solutions with new multi-compartment colocation cabinets and the V-Lock™ Cabinet Door Security System. Available in 600mm (24 in.) and 800mm (31.5 in.) widths and in 1000mm (40 in.) and 1200mm (48 in.) depths, Siemon’s multi-compartment cabinets come in 2-, 3- or 4-compartment configurations and in 42U, 45U, 48U and 52U heights. An ideal solution for colocation data centers leasing rack unit space to tenants that do not require
5G will happen in the airy realm of radio waves. To get there, big telecoms have to harness underused parts of the spectrum. But there’s another crucial part underlying this system: lowly cable. Huge numbers of new transmitters will be needed to relay all that data to your phone, and many of those transmitters will still connect to the internet through fiber-optic cable—glass as thin as strands of hair carrying pulses of light. To make it all work, companies, including OFS Optics, a fiber-optics and cable company, are now being commissioned to produce millions of miles of new cable holding twice as many fiber pairs—two strands, one for the uplink and one for the downlink—as the old stuff.
OFS defines “specialty” as any application not related to the transmission of voice or data over long distances, in campus settings, or within data centers. To help our customers with specialty applications such as the delivery of laser power, industrial networking, sensing, avionics systems, and short-haul communication networks. OFS Specialty Products are ideal for applications that require products to withstand harsh environment conditions. Whether your industry is medical, industrial, aerospace, defense, or energy.
Understanding loss means you can design networks properly, identify the good and bad in the network design, and then solve problems more easily. We are starting to see loss budgets get tighter and reflectance standards actually being enforced because speeds are going higher. Understanding how loss and reflectance work and how to work with a loss budget helps you to look and identify the good and bad in the networks design.
“Keep going smaller, denser, faster . . . and converge.” Great advice from Vanesa Diaz in her presentation on future-proofing your network from ANGACOM. Download your copy.
