As the demand for faster data transmission greatly increases, fiber optic cables have been more preferable than copper cables. However, copper cables, with low cost, easy operation and great flexibility, are still found in many electrical …

As the continuous advancement of networking technology, data center is required to accommodate more high-density and high-speed cables to satisfy the increasing demand for faster data transmission. However, this posts an urgent issue for m…

As one of the most important components in PON system, fiber optic splitter, like PLC splitter has been gaining in popularity. PLC (planar light-wave circuit) splitter is a kind of waveguide optical power distribution device integration ba…

Transceiver modules used in Gigabit Ethernet (1000BASE-LX) can only operate over single-mode fiber, which will pose a problem if an existing fiber network utilized multimode fibers. Therefore, to solve this problme, we must provide a migra…

As we all know, fiber optic patch cable plays an essential role in connection between devices and equipment. Based on different core diameters, there are two types of fiber optic patch cables—single-mode and multimode patch cables. However…

To meet the never-ending requirement for faster rates of data transmission, Ethernet technology has evolved from 100Mps into 10G, or even 100G . And at present, 10G is the most commonplace one. In a 10G network, fiber optic cabling plays a…

For the past few years, SFP transceiver modules have received much attention and widely used in telecommunication or communications applications. It is known that almost all modern SFP modules use two fibers to transmit data. One is to rec…

When it comes to the topic of fiber optic cables, one word that comes into your mind at first thought usually is speed—the kind of blinding speed needed in high-performance computing for within-box processing as well as between-box communi…

As fiber optic technology develops much maturer, and is widely deployed for private or public applications nowadays, the medium used for signal transmission, fiber optics, or more specifically, fiber optic cable, has become an essential pa…

As a communications subsystem, a fiber optic data link connects inputs and outputs (I/O) from electronic subsystems and transmits these signals over fiber optic cables. More specifically, this data link converts an electrical input signal …

To accommodate the increasing demands for high-speed data transmission and great data capacity, data centers are moving to 40G and 100G transmission networks now. It’s known that 40/100G Ethernet implementations over multi-mode fibers (MMF…

Copper wires were one the great inventions that let people to power the first telegraphs and telephones, allowing communication over long distances and bringing benefits to people’s daily life. Owing to the advances made in fiber optic tec…

It’s known that multi-mode (MMF) fiber is available in OM1, OM2, OM3 (e.g. OM3 patch cable) and OM4 versions. How about single-mode fiber (SMF)? There are a variety of SMFs with carefully optimized characteristics available commercially: I…

Over the years, data center bandwidth requirements are expanding at double-digit rates, along with the equally urgent push not to compromise the cost-to-performance ratio. To accommodate the needs of web-scale data centers and cloud-based …

When it comes to the information transmission, three ways are usually discussed. For landline telephone, a wire cable is used to carry the sounds from voice into a socket in the wall, where another cable takes it to the local telephone exc…

Data center, which is full of fiber optic cables (such as fiber cable LC to LC), optical modules, and many other optic products, is the brain of a company and the place where the most critical processes are run. Today we are gonna talk abo…

While talking about electrical applications, one may consider the tough copper because of its high conductivity and great tensile strength. But when it comes to telecommunication situations, here comes the fiber optic cable. Instead of bra…

With each day passing by, fiber optic technology grasps the time to develop itself and experiences vigorous growth, And now fiber optics has completely revolutionized communications. It's a truth that various fiber optic products have been…

Nowadays, it seems to be a commonplace that fiber optic systems have been deployed as the main means of data transmission in this modern work. And to better meet the increasing demands for internet protocol (IP)-based services, including v…

As fiber optic technology develops and more demands are being placed on data transfer, the needs for higher bandwidth and more connections are also growing accordingly, which makes the use of fiber optic patch cables and transceivers even …

Since it started out as a popular local-area network (LAN) technology, Ethernet has developed unceasingly into a networking method for metro-area networks (MANs). While Fibre Channel and InfiniBand have their places, Ethernet still dominat…

The virtualization and cloud computing, combined with the increasing low-latency services, drive data rates to even much higher points. Just like that 1GbE lines are being aggregated into 10GbE lines, the 10GbE lines are also being amounte…

With each passing day, fiber optics has become increasingly affordable, widely used for high data-rate systems such as FDDI, multimedia, ATM, or any other network that requires the transfer of large, time-consuming data files. As one of th…

Since fiber optic cables have been brought to the telecommunication market, fiber patch cord, made up of a fiber optic cable which is terminated with connector on both ends, has stepped all over the world and experienced significant use in…

Tough were those old days in the field of data communications when users had to take coppers wires as the medium to transmit data and many were looking to save money as much as they can in cabling installations and upgrades. But owing to t…

In the old days of grind-and-polish technology used in fiber optic communications, fiber patch cord installation seemed to be a difficult and hard-to get business which required a skillful specialist. But owing to the progress made in fibe…

In this big data age featuring high data transmission speed and great capacity, optical component transmission technology has experienced a crustal movement with each day passing by. The continuous demands of high-definition images, variou…

To meet the growing requirements of collaborative multimedia services and applications, to respond to the fast-changing traffic patterns, and to better accommodate users’ bandwidth demands, 100G connections have been positioned for signifi…

Prysmian says that Australian service provider TPG Telecom has used the company's FlexTube fiber-optic cable to set a record for fiber density. TPG has deployed a fiber cable with 2,112 fibers. Prysmian announced that it has begun manufact…

The number of cloud applications, virtualized workloads, coupled with a host of devices housed in data centers, all these increase at an amazing speed in this technological world. When walking past the data center, you may hear such a call…