http://www.fiberoptics4sale.com/wordpress Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:31:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 3M Hot Melt fiber connectors continue to be a popular choice among fiber optic installers in the field. The Hot Melt connectors utilize an advanced adhesive technology eliminating the application of epoxy. The connectors provide quick termination in 2 minutes or less and are re-heatable to allow for fiber repositioning. ... http://www.fiberoptics4sale.com/wordpress/how-to-terminate-3m-hot-melt-fiber-connectors/ If you have been in the fiber optic communication industry for a while, you must be familiar with the tried and true, traditional style epoxy, cure and polish fiber optic connectors - may it be FC, SC, ST, LC or MTRJ.   Those epoxy and polish connectors are reliable, cheap and has ... http://www.fiberoptics4sale.com/wordpress/are-3m-hot-melt-fiber-connector-as-reliable-as-standard-epoxy-and-polish-fiber-connectors/ What is optical fiber cleaving? Simply put, optical fiber cleaving is the art of cutting glass optical fibers at a perfect 90° angle with a mirror like surface. This isn't as easy as it sounds. Why do we need to cut the fiber at a perfect 90° angle at all? Well, this ... http://www.fiberoptics4sale.com/wordpress/how-do-fiber-optic-cleavers-precisely-cut-optical-fibers-in-a-flash/ POWELL, WYOMING - Can you imagine getting fiber optic connected to your home for free? Fiber can deliver download and upload speeds hundreds of times faster than most high speed internet services, and every home in Powell will have it soon. It's a city owned project. A machine dug an underground ... http://www.fiberoptics4sale.com/wordpress/powell-owned-fiber-optic/   We hope Verizon (VZ) boss Ivan Seidenberg doesn't get his business news from French newspaper Le Monde, or he might have had a small stroke this week. In an article about French cable operator Numéricable, Le Monde apparently reported that Verizon was going to halt its $24 billion FiOS fiber-optic ... http://www.fiberoptics4sale.com/wordpress/french-paper-kills-verizons-vz-24-billion-fios-project/ New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, Assessment of Broadband Access Networks, finds that fiber optic networks, despite their high capital expenditure, are looking as an increasingly viable long-term solution for providing a sustainable customer experience without straining the network. If you are interested in an analysis, which provides manufacturers, end ... http://www.fiberoptics4sale.com/wordpress/demand-for-bandwidth-driving-global-deployment-of-fiber-optic-networks/   The ink was hardly dry on the 10Gbase-T (10 gigabit Ethernet over UTP) standard and the industry discussion swung to the next big thing – 40 Gigabit and 100 Gigabit Ethernet. While the latest technology being developed always makes for interesting discussion, it is the deployable technology that exists today ... http://www.fiberoptics4sale.com/wordpress/10-gigabit-ethernet-overview/   As the surge for additional convergence technology and increased-bandwidth continues, CWDM Ethernet-over-fiber seems to be a viable solution for service providers. CWDM involves both sides of the equation. That is, reducing operating costs and increasing revenue. As the traditional service revenue declines, service providers shift their focus on finding new sources ... http://www.fiberoptics4sale.com/wordpress/why-cwdm/   More and more products are being released with single mode single fiber optics and can be perceived as being very expensive, but are they? What is single mode single fiber?The answer is that it is possible to transmit and receive using one strand of single mode fiber. This is achieved by ... http://www.fiberoptics4sale.com/wordpress/the-benefits-of-using-single-mode-single-fiber/   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. Prysmian says that while CasaLight will remain a standard fiber choice for FTTH applications, the availability of ... http://www.fiberoptics4sale.com/wordpress/prysmian-releases-new-bend-insensitive-fiber/