July 23 evening news, Switzerland's largest Telecommunications operator Swisscom Tuesday announced that its Germen nationals CEO Carsten Schloter was found dead at home near Freiburg and initial investigations suggest that he killed himsel…

Cabling is the backbone of the network and one of the most important components to ensure a network runs properly. A structured cabling system is designed to ensure that information flows smoothly over the cabling network. It includes a se…

Turkey Telekom International has deployed Ekinops 100-Gbps coherent optical transport technology on its network between Germany and Ukraine, where it connects with Datagroup, a major Ukrainian operator, to create an ultra-fast low latency …

In today’s networking systems, LANs are becoming larger and more complicated, and people are looking for equipment that is cost-effective, flexible and easy to manage, it comes to the Fiber Media Converter, which can connect different type…

There are two basic cable designs available that are used for designing fiber optic networks in North America. One is loose tube fiber cable, applied in many outside plants, duct, direct-buried applications. Another is tight buffered fiber…

Cable Ties are a necessity for supporting and holding cables, wires, and other objects in place. They are helpful for those devices that spend most of the day separated from their respective fiber patch cords and chargers. Cable ties also …

VLC Technology (Visible light communication) is one of the advanced optical wireless communication technologies, in which light in the visible region (375nm - 780nm) is used as a medium for data transmission is more secure and achieves hig…

Once the cable plant is installed and terminated, or likewise fiber optic cables get damaged as the time passes by. It is recommended to test the fiber optic segment. Thus it’s of prior need to get them tested on a regularly basis, so that…

The selection between cat5e and cat6 network cable.1. The table below is the electrical performance comparison between Cat5e and Cat6 cable: Items Cat 5e Cat 6 Frequency Range 1-100MHz 1-250MHz Delay Same with TSB95 Same with TSB95 Delay S…

Because of major national policy support, to develop the field of fiber optic products, optical fiber gradual decline in the price of the cost, fiber optic installation and construction are also increasingly simple and convenient, plus hig…

Fiber in the fiber optic cable products is a very fragile thing, need more special protection, therefore, when fiber optic cables are in transportation, laying and installation you should pay attention to the following matters:1. The cable…

Because of the Internet and broadband networks were introduced, the emerging applications - such as teleconferencing, video on demand, and high quality audio transmission has strict high flux optical access network quality of service (QoS)…

There are many different types of components used for communication. All these components fall under two categories, fiber optic active components and fiber optic passive components. The fiber passive components, which require no input pow…

When you install and terminate fiber optic cables, you always have to test them. A test should be conducted for each fiber optic cable plant for three main areas: continuity, loss, and power. And optical power meters are part of the toolbo…

Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer (ROADM)ROADM can always be adjusted with the distribution network to add and drop wavelength, which reconstruct the network resource allocation, the flexibility to meet the requires of modern urb…

Arrayed Waveguide Gratings (AWG FOADM)

Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG FOADM)

What's the Optical Add-drop Multiplexer?The optical add-drop multiplexers (OADM) are used in wavelength-division multiplexing systems for multiplexing and routing different channels of light into or out of a single mode fiber (SMF). This i…

Install the telephone jack is one of the basic wiring jobs homeowners can do. Home automation applications may include installing phone extensions in additional rooms or installing a second phone line in the house. Automation enthusiasts c…

Stop and think how your Internet usage has evolved during the last few years. If you're like most people, you will do, and looking forward to more online interaction, such as increasing rich media and upload and download images and video.M…

Fiber optic cables provide a reliable and fast method of data transfer. However, it’s simply impossible to make a single fiber long enough to match the length of cable necessary for most networks. This is where fiber fusion splicing comes …

A network adapter interfaces a computer to a network. The term "adapter" was popularized originally by Ethernet add-in cards for PCs. A network interface controller (also known as a PCI Network Adapter, network adapter, LAN adapter) is a c…

A mode conditioning patch cord is needed at each transmitter/receiver when using multimode 62.5/125μm optical fiber for transmitting Gigabit data over distances greater than 300 metres. Mode conditioning fiber patch cables, also known as G…

Twisted pair cables are widely used in transmitting information, especially across great distances. The twist in the wire cancels out any magnetic interference that may develop in the wiring. There are two common types of twisted pair cabl…

Fiber optic light source is one of the fiber optic test equipments, used to measure the fiber optical loss for fiber optic cables. Usually fiber optic light sources are used together with the fiber optic power meter.A fiber optic light sou…

Armored fiber optic cables are often installed in a network for added mechanical protection, as they have extra reinforcing in the cable housing to prevent damage. Two types of armored fiber optic cables exist: interlocking and corrugated.…

Almost all the countries in the world expect their foreign intelligence services to tap and sift through international telecommunications. For that reason, network operators whose lines cross International borders are legally obliged to ma…

Fiber optic technology has revolutionized the way the communication can be handled in a more efficient and faster manner. Fiber Pigtail is a piece of optical cable with connectors only on one side of the cable and a length of exposed fiber…

What are the various types of Cat x cables? Are all these copper cables the same?The common found Category (Category is the full form of Cat) x cables include Cat 5, Cat 5e, Cat 6, Cat 6A, Cat 7 and Cat 7A. For almost all users the answer …

MTP solution is a market where high quality, security and bandwidth are the most important requirements. The MTP fiber cable was introduced as 12 fibers across the connector face to support 6 duplex channels and have evolved to accommodate…