With data centers moving to 40G/100G, MPO fiber cables are extensively deployed. To ensure the reliable and efficient performance of the MPO cables, it is critical to clean the MPO connectors before mating to other equipment as contaminated connectors would lead to degraded performance and costly but preventable failures. There are two ways to clean […]
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Fiber Optic Splicing Basis
Splicing is one way to join two optical fibers together so that the light signal from one optical fiber can be transferred into another optical fiber. A splice is a permanent connection of two optical fibers. Once the two optical fibers are joined with a splice, they cannot be taken apart and put back together […]
Fiber Optic Cable and Connector Cleaning Guide
Why Is Fiber Optics Cleaning Important? Reliable and efficient fiber installations are critical to the high performance network. Cleaning fiber optic components is essential for quality connections between fiber optic equipment. It is one of the most basic and important procedures for the maintenance of fiber optic systems, because any contamination in the fiber optic […]
How Much Do You Know About FTTH PON Testing?
Passive optical network (PON) is a cost-effective way to deliver high-bandwidth broadband services to users and widely deployed all over the world. FTTH uses PON technology and provides high bandwidth from the central office (CO) to subscribers. FTTH PON system achieves network reliability and makes network testing, monitoring and measuring easier. This article will tell […]
Causes of Mechanical Splice Termination Failures
FTTH (fiber to the home) has become increasingly popular in optical communication industry. Fiber optic termination, as one of the topics which have never been out of fashion in this field, has naturally become a focus of FTTH network deployment, especially the indoor termination. In FTTH network, mechanical splice connectors are usually used in FTTH […]
Drop Cable and Its Termination in FTTH
FTTH (fiber to the home) networks are installed in many areas covering indoor section, outdoor section, as well as the transition in between. To fulfill the cabling requirements from different areas, different types of fiber optic cables are well developed. Drop cable as an important part of FTTH network forms the final external link between […]