...tubing to each fibre within a loose-tube cable. It can be a headache-inducing task if you don’t have the right tools. If you bend the cable or buffer tubes past their recommended bend radius, or if you allow them to kink, you’ll end up with...

...Bend radius • Bending a fibre cable • One of the most important considerations when installing fibre optic cable is maintaining the minimum bend radius. Bending a fibre cable excessively may cause the optical signal to refract and escape through the...

How fibre is insulated for use in harsh environments • How fibre is insulated for use in harsh environments • Fibre optic cable not only gives you immunity to interference and greater signal security, but it’s also constructed to insulate the ...

Fiber To The Office • Fiber To The Office • The classical network • A classical network consists of a rack with switches and patch panels and outlets in your cable conduit. Between the outlets and the patch panel you use Cat5, 6 or 7 cables. H...

...Advantages of video on fibre optic cable. • Advantages of fibre optic cable over copper coax cable to transmit video • Superior performance • Fibre cable supports a very high data rate and yields a very low signal loss. So you get sharp, clear vide...

Fibre cable and pulling eyes • Fibre cable and pulling eyes • A damaged Fibre Optic Cable during Pulling • Fibre optic cable can be damaged if pulled improperly. Broken or cracked fibre, for example, can result from pulling on the fibre core o...

Fibre Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) • Fibre Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) • Fibre Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) is a networking standard developed in the early 1980s by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) for operating...

50-µm fibre optic cable • Fibre optic cable. • The background • As today’s networks expand, the demand for more bandwidth and greater distances increases. Gigabit Ethernet and the emerging 10-Gigabit Ethernet are becoming the applications of c...

...less expensive than fibre optic cable • Digital optical cable with plastic-core construction is less expensive than fibre optic cable with a glass core, but it still provides the benefits of optical transmission over short distances. Digital aud...