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table, tr, th, td { border: 1px solid #111; text-align: center; } Recently, there has been some buzz about Wide Band Multimode Fiber (WBMMF). The 2016 edition of document TIA-492AAAE, released on June 1, is available. This document/standard is the...
Akin to water flowing from a small pipe into a large pipe, gainers are essentially perceived increases in optical power that occur at splice points due to variations in fiber characteristics, including core diameter, numerical apertures, mode field...
The use of plug-and-play 12-fiber MPO solutions for multimode fiber backbones in the data center has been popular for several years, starting with 10 Gigabit Ethernet where 12-fiber MPO assemblies connect MPO-to-LC cassettes or modules that...
INTRODUCTION Testing standards for measuring attenuation of installed multimode (and single-mode) cable plant require using launch and tail cords with OTDRs. Standards mandate that the optical fiber sub category (e.g. graded index 50 µm) be the same...
Over the past decade, the amount of fiber in the data center has increased significantly due to the need for higher bandwidth between switches and the ever increasing amount of equipment requiring fiber uplinks to storage area networks (SANs), not...
The TIA TR-42.7 Copper Cabling Subcommittee recently approved specifications for Category 8 cabling (TIA 568 C.2-1), the latest twisted-pair copper system designed to support future IEEE 25GBASE T and 40GBASE T applications currently under...
Just Now Upgrading to 10 Gig? We Didn’t Forget About You While upgrading backbone cable plants in the LAN to support 10 Gig has been going on for several years since the release of the 10GBASE-SR standard for fiber, many enterprise businesses did...
If you’re looking to deploy 802.11ac on existing cabling, you have probably been watching developments in the NBASE-T world. NBASE-T is the technology that promises to provide speeds up to 5 Gbps to support the fastest 802.11ac access points over...
Getting the right setup to ensure the best test results with your DSX-5000 If you turn up to a new installation with your new DSX-5000 then it might be up to you to ensure the DSX-5000 is set up correctly. So what do you have to do? Well, if it’s...
In a recent Cable Testing 101 series blog on mixing multimode fiber types , we covered the considerations surrounding mixing legacy 62.5 micron (µm) OM1 fiber with today's laser optimized 50µm OM3 and OM4 fiber and highlighted the "gainers" that can...
