Fiber optic cable is the primary media for outside plants, campuses, and LAN backbone infrastructure because it can transmit more data farther. It also comprises the majority of data center switch-to-switch and switch-to-server links that transmit high volumes of data at faster speeds. It’s even increasing

Even if your project specification or customer doesn’t require you to test a newly installed fiber cable plant, you could be putting yourself and your customer at risk if you don’t. Certification testing to industry standards ensures that a cable plant will support your customers’ applications

Premise innerduct is a flexible, non-metallic, corrugated raceway that has long been an essential conduit system for protecting fiber optic cables installed throughout telecommunications spaces and pathways. It can help isolate fiber to prevent damage from other cables or trades working in those spaces. Premise

As technology continues to advance, fiber optic cabling is essential to ensuring ample bandwidth for emerging applications and the transmission of ever-increasing amounts of data. Today’s networks encompass more fiber links than ever before, from service provider networks and switch and server links in the

Things can go wrong even when a fiber optic network is installed properly without exceeding loss budgets, cabling bend radius, or pull tension. Problems that creep up in an existing fiber optic network can be related to the cabling and connectivity infrastructure, such as contaminated connector end faces or dama

Media converters are fairly simple networking devices for connecting dissimilar media, and most people think of them as being used for transitioning from electrical signals transmitted over copper to optical signals transmitted over fiber. But did you know that media converters can be used for converting other s

Local area networks (LANs) and data centers have long been comprised of both copper and fiber cables to establish backbone links between active equipment and horizontal links to connect a wide range of end devices. Knowing the key differences between the two and understanding their capabilities are vital to choo

Pre-terminated fiber assemblies are ideal for data center deployments because they enable high density, reduce labor and deployment time, and offer superior performance with less variability due to factory termination. However, not every fiber deployment is suited for pre-terminated solutions. Longer lead times,