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:: How do Corning Unicam connectors work? This instruction uses the Corning Unicam Pretium Installation Tool Kit to terminate Unicam SC, LC and ST connectors. You can get the tool kit here. Or click on the following picture to get. Unicam connector is a type of quick termination connectors which takes less two minutes to install. This is a big time saving compared to 5~10 minutes for traditional epoxy and polish connectors. But how does it achieve this? The answer is simple: Unicam connector is pre-polished. Take a close look at the following picture. Unicam connector end face is pre-polished

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. We will demonstrate the detailed steps for polishing a LC Hot Melt connector, including multimode and single mode LC connectors. The LC connector termination kit (6650-LC) is an extension to the basic FC,SC and ST connector termination kit(6365 and 6361). 6650-LC needs to work together with 6365 or 6361.But if

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 been industry standardized. Big manufacturers terminate thousands or even tens of thousands of epoxy and polish connectors each day.   However, these standard connectors are not suitable for all applications, especially in the field. Emergency recovery and low quantity field terminations require quick and easy approaches for fiber

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 is required when we want to fuse two optical fibers together. Optical fiber fusion splicing always requires that the fiber tips have a smooth end face that is perpendicular to the fiber axis. The cleave quality is very important in determining the fusion splicing loss. This is especially

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 that receives the most day-to-day conversation. To that end, we are only just beginning to see 10 gigabit Ethernet actually being deployed in local area network (LAN) environments. The IEEE standards organization recently ratified the IEEE802.3an-2006 reference standard defining 10GBase-T allowing for 10 gigabits per second data transmission over Category-6a