Fiberoptic.com Presents: Fiber Optic Fusion Splicers Market Forecast     Aptos, CA (USA) – February 4, 2014  — ElectroniCast Consultants, a leading market and technology research consultancy addressing the fiber optics communications industry, today announced the release of an extensive report covering the worldwide market for Fiber Optic Fusion Splicers.  This report provides an analysis of...Read More

Fiberoptic.com Presents:​ Where we were 10 Years Ago: Executing Air-Blown Fiber Installations Combined with a zone cabling approach, air-blown fiber simplifies MACs and network upgrades, with minimal interruption. Using a zone cabling approach for a network at its new facility in Pittsburgh, PA, Seagate Research chose air-blown optical-fiber to ease installation and for future upgrade capabilities....Read More

Fiberoptic.com​ Presents: Placing Our Bets on Network Security in 2014                                   As a marketer, it’s reassuring to be able to point to third-party data that reinforces industry trends and customer needs, rather than us, the vendor, “tooting our own horn.”...Read More

Windstream continues to provide reliable voice, data and network services to federal government agencies ​ LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—Windstream (Nasdaq: WIN), a leading provider of advanced network communications, announced today that it has been awarded a five-year, $1.6 million contract by the United States Department of Defense to provide fiber connections and services for three U.S....Read More

Fiberoptic.com Presents: ​NCTA: FCC Should Open up Satellite Spectrum for WiFi and Gigabit WiFi Use The National Cable & Telecommunications Association on Wednesday filed a report with the FCC aimed at persuading the commission to allow 100 MHz of spectrum in the 5 GHz U-NII-1 band to be used more broadly for WiFi, including the new...Read More

  Photo vi​a Flickr/CC. The National Security Agency most likely did not listen to you trudge to work this morning over a series of underground microphones. For all we know, the agency isn’t keeping its ears to the ground, as it were. But it could if it wanted to. It would be the most ambitious use of what’s known as distributed acoustic sensing. Put...Read More

Fiberoptic.com is excited to annouce Huawei Technologies Co Ltd.’s prototype optical transceiver with embedded optical time-domain reflectometer (eOTDR) functionality, which the company claims could significantly reduce the cost of troubleshooting in fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) networks. An OTDR detects backscattered light in optical fibers and uses this information to compute the location of faults. Traditionally, FTTH maintenance...Read More

Fiberoptic.com Feature Article: EXFO’s New FTB-88100NGE Power Blazer Test Suite Enables All 10M-to-100G Rates for Multiservice Field Testing Fiberoptic.com is excited to announce the extension of EXFO’s FTB/IQS-88100NGE Power Blazer offering to cover 10M-to-10G interfaces, as well as rates including Ethernet, SONET/SDH and OTN. Adding to the modules’ existing 40G/100G capabilities, these functionalities are available...Read More

“Dust Cap” may not be the best name for the small piece of plastic that covers the end of a fiber optic connector, since the cap’s purpose isn’t actually to keep dust out.  A dust cap’s actual job is not so much to keep the fiber clean, but to shield the polished endface of the...Read More

OTDR Training OTDR training is one of the most important skills for technicians at companies that provide fiber optic services.  Used to calculate the length of a span of fiber and the loss along that span, an OTDR is also useful for identifying, testing, and locating faults in optical fibers and dealing with similar problems...Read More