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By now you’ve probably heard of 8-fiber MPO plug and play solutions available on the market, which are ideal for Gigabit (40GBASE-SR4) and 100 Gigabit (100GBASE-SR4) applications that use 8 fibers with 4 transmitting and 4 receiving at either 10 or...
We’ve just posted Version 5.1 Build 4 of the Versiv software for the following products: DSX Series CableAnalyzers TM CertiFiber TM Pro Optical Loss Test Set OptiFiber® Pro OTDR FiberInspector TM Pro Fiber Inspection Scope Versiv Kit Configurator...
Maybe you’ve seen TCL and ELTCTL listed on your cable spec sheet, or perhaps you’ve noticed them on your DSX CableAnalyzer, and you’re simply not familiar with these parameters, what they indicate and if they are required. Let’s take a closer look....
Or, what a minor obsession with reliability looks like. We don’t get a lot of complaints about our product quality, so when we do, it gets our interest. After recently receiving a field complaint that a user’s OTDR launch packs were degrading...
Twenty five years ago this month, a highly animated character popped into my cubicle at Fluke. He had a mandate: find a new business opportunity for Fluke within 100 days. To assist this effort, he also had $100,000 and the authority to employ...
Let’s face it. Spring cleaning stinks. I mean, does anyone actually enjoy cleaning? I don’t know about you, but I certainly am not counting down my winter days until I can scrub the house top to bottom only to have it quickly soiled by muddy feet...
By now you probably know that Category 8 cabling was approved by the TIA TR-42.7 Copper Cabling Subcommittee, and maybe you’ve even heard that Fluke Networks introduced the DSX-8000 CableAnalyzer , the first field tester independently verified and...
You have likely heard copper network cabling referred to as balanced twisted-pair copper cabling, and maybe you’ve heard of the testing parameter referred to as DC resistance unbalance. But what does all this balance-related terminology really mean,...
.question{ color: rgb(41,63,106); font-size: 18px; line-height:4px; } table tr td{ border: 1px solid black; border-collapse: collapse; } Guest Posting from Corning Optical Communications OM5, previously known as wide band multimode fiber or WB MMF,...
Lately, I have been getting questions about why bend insensitive multimode fiber (BIMMF) can’t be used in test cords. The argument is that non-BIMMF (e.g., “traditional” fiber) is becoming more difficult to procure and installers need the...
