Following the launch last year of CasaLight, an ITU G657-compliant bend insensitive fibre, Prysmian has introduced CasaLight Plus, an enhanced performance design that further reduces the minimum working bend radius to exceed the recommendations of G657.B....
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Optical Fiber
I’ve read about the new 50-micron laser optimized multimode fiber. When should I specify that instead of standard 50-micron or 62.5 micron fiber?
Companies that are installing fiber today should consider the new 50-micron laser-optimized multimode fiber as it will...
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Multimode Fiber Applications
As transmission moves closer to the user and distances become shorter, a set of solutions are necessary to address the specific needs of the LAN market and those of other short-reach applications, such as SAN (storage area...
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Fiber Optic Cable Minimum Bend Radius
Optical fiber cable installation is usually just as simple as installing coaxial or UTP cable in horizontal cabling. But the most critical factor in fiber optic cable installation is to keep the fiber cables’...
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Optical Fiber Macrobending Loss
Optical fibers suffer from macro-bending loss at bends or curves on their paths. This is due to the energy in the evanescent field at the bend exceeding the velocity of light in the cladding and hence...Read more »
Types of Fibers
Glass Fiber Glass fiber is the most common type of fiber available, with companies such as Corning and Siecor producing billions of meters per year. Common industry-standard glass fibers are differentiated by the diameter of the core:...
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Is multimode fiber a better choice than single mode fiber?
Well, the short answer is YES for premises and local area networks. Single mode and multimode fibers have different network applications, because they have very different optical-performance attributes. In the...
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