With the pre-terminated plug & play benefits and ease of scalability from 10-40-100G, MPO/MTP connectors are rapidly becoming the norm of switch-switch connections. In the previous post “Introduction to MPO Connector”, I have talked about two types of MPO connectors—12 fiber MPO connector and 24 fiber MPO connector. And both the two MPO/MTP cable types […]
Fiber Cabling
MTP Links: Base-8 vs. Base-12 vs. Base-24
For data center managers, deploying a fiber system that can easily be upgraded to future high-density network demands is the first thing that should be considered, because network reconfiguration would spend lots of time and money. So it is essential to deploy a fiber network which is easier to upgrade to the higher data rates […]
MTP-8 Solution: Future-Proof Connectivity in Data Center
In most data centers, MTP cable is widely used for high density application. MTP-12 connectivity and MTP-24 connectivity are the two common types of cabling connections, which use links based on increments of 12 and 24, such as 12-fiber trunk cables and 24-fiber trunk cables. In addition to MTP-12 and MTP-24, there is another MTP […]
Introduction to MPO Connector
Introduced several years ago, MPO connectors are now widely used around the world. They are designed to reduce the amount of time required for fusion splicing individual connectors. Combining lots of fibers in one connector, the MPO connector not only greatly reduces the time of connecting fibers, but also saves a lot of space. This […]
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 […]
How Much Do You Know About PM Patch Cables?
When talking about fiber optic patch cables, you may know LC fiber patch cables or MTP/MPO fiber cables. Besides these cables, there are some special fiber patch cables, such as mode conditioning patch cables, which has been introduced in the previous article. Today we will introduce another special fiber patch cable—polarization maintaining (PM) fiber patch […]