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 increasingly making its way into horizontal infrastructure for connecting d …
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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 and prevent costly callbacks. Test results for every fiber link are invalua …
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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 data center to backbone infrastructure in local area networks (LAN …
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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 damaged cable. However, before going down the rabbit hole of hiri …
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Every network today includes fiber optic cable and connectivity—whether it’s an all-fiber outside plant (OSP) infrastructure, thousands of fiber links between equipment in the data center, or the fiber backbone in a LAN. While fiber provides greater reach and bandwidth than copper, you may be surprised to learn that fiber is also more durable than copper—even though it’s …
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                                Multi-fiber push-on (MPO) connectors like the US Conec MTP® Elite designed for exceptional low-loss performance have become a mainstay in the data center for today’s high-density, high-speed …
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                          Supply chain issues are plaguing the information communications technology industry, resulting in limited access to components and lead times at an all-time high that are hampering the ability for companies and service prov …
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