A previous CommScope blog post discussed the advantages and disadvantages of Angled Physical Contact (APC) and Ultra Physical Contact (UPC) connectors. At that time, the focus was on connectors for ...

Intended for technicians who must transition from copper to fiber testing with little or no training, the easy-to-use AXS-110 All-Fiber from EXFO is a lightweight, handheld ODTR that combines both ...

Over the past few years, Leviton has polled customers about the type of fiber they would install today to prepare for the future, with single-mode OS2 fiber growing strongly in popularity over that ...

Australian-US team says wavefront-shaping of input light lifts power threshold for SBS scattering by an order of magnitude. Optical scientists have found a new way to significantly increase the power ...

Expanding its cable certification and testing portfolio, Softing now provides fiber optic installers with a fast, flexible and cost-effective device for Tier 1 fiber optic certification. Softing Inc., ...

I need about 5-10 meters, and the contractor doing the job never worked with fiber before so I need to provide my own pre-terminated cable. What should I look for in something that goes in the wall? I ...

A world record transmission of 1 petabit per second in a multimode optical fiber increases the current record data rate in multimode optical fibers by more than 2.5 times. Wideband optical ...

I intend to pull fiber cables through walls. They are thin and convenient, and they can be miles long without significant signal losses as opposed to twisted pair metallic conductor cables. The main ...

Securing vulnerable computer systems and networks means paying constant attention to security to defend against cyber attacks. This vigilance also applies to the physical connections, the optical ...