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.
Fluke’s Fiber Test and Troubleshooting — Optical Fiber Cabling for Data Communication Handbook is now available as an eBook! Learn about the fundamentals of how to inspect, clean, test, troubleshoot and document fiber cabling infrastructure installations.
In recent years, more enterprise and data center networks hav adopted single-mode fiber. This article will help you understand why single-mode is finding its way into shorter reach applications and will address some prevailing preconceived notions about single-mode fiber — whether true or false — and provide guidance for single-mode testing, cleaning, and inspection.
Figuring out why a cable isn’t working can take a long time. But it doesn’t have to if you have the right tools. Fluke’s Jim Davis shows you how to find problems quickly.
Are you worried about how MICE might affect your cabling? We don’t mean rodents, but the Mechanical / Ingress / Chemical / Climate / Electromagnetic issues that impact Industrial Ethernet. See how to test for the “E” in this new video
Fluke’s MultiFiber Pro tests MPO fiber trunks without the use of fan-out cords. The tester offers automatic scanning and testing of all 12 fibers in MPO connectors and ensures correct end-to-end connectivity of MPO fiber trunks with built-in polarity verification. The tester features a simple user interface that displays all 12 fibers and the ability to drill down to a single fiber test result.
Uptime Institute this week announced its new Outage Severity Rating (OSR), created to help the digital infrastructure and data center community better understand and articulate service outages in the context of how each incident affects the business.
IT Troubleshooting: prevention is always better than cure. But many organizations waste time and resources treating the wrong ailment! Take a look at the IT Troubleshooting Process infographic and let us know which one reminds you of your organization.
Whether you need to keep tabs on the endless wave of personal devices in the workplace, track the performance of third-party applications (or those in the data center), or ensure cyber criminals aren’t probing the network, the reality is that you can’t control what you can’t see. Having access to network traffic and properly distributing that data to the tools your business relies on is crucial for network visibility. That’s where the network Test Access Points (TAPs) come in.
