Month: April 2013

Fiber Patch Cables, also known as fiber jumpers or fiber patch cords, are used to connect fiber optic equipment to fiber optic cross-connects, inter connects, and information outlets. Having a thick layer of protection, it is used to connect the optical transmitter, receiver and the terminal box.

Fiber patch cable Features:
1. Low insertion loss and High Return Loss;

2. Fully compliant with standards of IEC and YD-T826/1996;

3. Temperature stability: Operating temperature: -20 to +75°C;

4. High durability, more than 500 times mating;

5. Individual package with detail information labe.

Applications of fiber optic patch cords:
FTTH application;

Premise installations;

Data processing networks;

Wide Area Networks (WANs);

Telecommunication networks;

Industrial, mechanical and military.

General Types Of Fiber Patch Cable
Generally there are two types of fiber optic patch cords: single mode fiber optic patch cords and multimode fiber optic patch cords. The word mode means the transmitting mode of the fiber optic light in the fiber optic cable core. Single-mode fiber is generally yellow, with a blue connector and a long transmission distance. Multi-mode fiber is generally, orange or grey, with a cream of black connector and a short transmission distance.

Single mode fiber optic patch cord has a small core and only one pathway of light. With only a single wavelength of light passing through its core, single mode realigns the light toward the center of the core instead of simply bouncing it off the edge of the core as with multimode. Single mode fiber patch cable is typically used in long-haul network connections spread out over extended areas–longer than a few miles. For example, telecommunications use it for connections between switching offices. Single mode cable features a 9-micron glass core.

Single-mode fiber cable is primarily used for applications involving extensive distances. Multimode fiber, however, is the cable of choice for most common local fiber systems as the devices for multimode are far cheaper.

Multimode fiber optic patch cord has a large-diameter core that is much larger than the wavelength of light transmitted, and therefore has multiple pathways of light-several wavelengths of light are used in the fiber core. Multimode optical fiber patch cords can be used as cross connect jumpers, equipment and work area cords, used for most general fiber applications. Use multimode fiber for bringing fiber to the desktop, for adding segments to your existing network, or in smaller applications such as alarm systems. Multimode cable comes with two different core sizes: 50 micron or 62.5 micron.

Special types of fiber optic patch cables:

FTTH Patch Cables;

Polarization Maintaining PM Fiber Patch Cables;

Mode conditioning fiber optic patch cables (mode conditioning patch cord, mode conditioning cable);

Pre-terminated pigtail (fiber pigtails, fiber pigtail, fiber optic pigtail, fiber optic pigtails).

Fiberstore offers fiber optic patch cables with different fiber connector types, low insertion loss and low back reflection. FiberStore Technology fiber patch cables are widely used in applications of Telecommunication Networks, Gigabit Ethernet and Premise Installations.

FiberStore is pleased to announce the new high density fiber media converters for end-to-end fiber to Ethernet conversion. The new range of Ethernet to fiber media converters are idea for large enterprises and campus enviroments to add the benefits of fiber to their UTP copper-based network.

The copper-based Ethernet connections use unshielded twisted pair (UTP) cable and has limited the data transmission distance for only 100m. While by using the Ethernet to fiber converters, the fiber optic cabling can be extended the link to 80Km.

One of the benefits of a fiber media converter is to have a combination of 10Mb Ethernet, Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet in one network. For example a company headquarters may be using a Gigabit backbone but the remote offices are still using 10 or 100MB Ethernet. Devices on the 10/100 Ethernet switch in the remote branch office can be connected over fiber optic lines to the Gigabit backbone at the headquarters through the use of Perle’s 10/100/1000 Converters.

By using 10/100/1000 Media Converters, facilities can be connected over public or privately owned fiber optic cable up to 80 km away, they don’t need to reinvest in new fiber base switches, routers or firewalls – which are generally 3 times more expensive than their copper based counterparts.

Fast Ethernet Media Converters can connect legacy 10/100BASE-T network segments to more recent 100BASE-TX or 100BASE-FX Fast Ethernet infrastructure and support 10/100Base-T and 100Base-FX ,100BASE-TX applications.

Gigabit Ethernet Converters are 1000M converters that used in Gigabit Ethernet as copper to fiber conversion equipment. It is used in high-speed high stability 1000Base Ethernet which support 1000BASE-T to 1000BASE-FX/TX fiber connections.

An Ethernet to Fiber Media Converter can also be used where there is high level of EMI (electromagnetic interference), which is a common phenomenon found in industrial plants. EMI can cause corruption of data over copper-based Ethernet links. Data transmitted over fiber optic cable, however, is completely immune to the noise. An Ethernet to Fiber Converter therefore enables companies to inter-connect copper-Ethernet devices over fiber ensuring optimal data transmission across the plant floor.

FiberStore offers an extensive choice of full-featured Ethernet to fiber media converter systems such as Ethernet/Gigabit Ethernet/Fast Ethernet Converters with high-end components, lifetime warranty, user satisfaction. These converters are used to connect remote users reliably and securely to central servers for a wide variety of business applications.

A fiber optic cable is a cable containing one or more optical fibers in a single cable, is a particularly popular technology for local-area networks. Fiber optic cable is composed of microscopic strands of glass. Information in the form of bytes of data can travel through this glass over longer distances and at higher bandwidths (data rates) than other types of cable. The optical fiber elements are typically individually coated with plastic layers and contained in a protective tube suitable for the environment where the cable will be deployed.

Advantage and Shortage of Fiber Optic Cables
Fiber optic cables carry communication signals using pulses of light, which consist of a bundle of glass threads, each of which is capable of transmitting messages modulated onto light waves.  Fiber optic cables have several advantages over traditional metal communications lines:

Fiber optic cables have a much greater bandwidth than metal cables. This means that they can carry more data;
Fiber optic cables are less susceptible than metal cables to interference;
Fiber optic cables are much thinner and lighter than metal wires;
Data can be transmitted digitally (the natural form for computer data) rather than analogically.

While, the main shortage of fiber optic cables is that the cables are expensive to install. In addition, they are more fragile than wire and are difficult to splice.

While expensive, these cables are increasingly being used instead of traditional copper cables, because fiber offers more capacity and is less susceptible to electrical interference. So-called Fiber to the Home (FTTH) installations are becoming more common as a way to bring ultra-high speed Internet service (100 Mbps and higher) to residences. In recent years, the cost of small fiber-count pole-mounted cables has greatly decreased due to the high demand for FTTH installations in Japan and South Korea.

Fiber cable can be very flexible, it can be bent with a radius as low as 7.5 mm without adverse impact. Even more bendable fibers have been developed. Bendable fiber may also be resistant to fiber hacking, in which the signal in a fiber is surreptitiously monitored by bending the fiber and detecting the leakage. But traditional fiber’s loss increases greatly if the fiber is bent with a radius smaller than around 30 mm. This creates a problem when the cable is bent around corners or wound around a spool, making FTTX installations more complicated. Bendable fibers, targeted towards easier installation in home environments, have been standardized as ITU-T G.657.

New Hollow Fiber Optic Cable
Fiber optic cables are usually made of glass or plastic but those materials actually slow down the transmission of light ever so slightly. Researchers at the University of Southampton in the UK have created a hollow fiber optic cable filled with air that’s 1000 times faster than current cables. Since light propagates in air at 99.7 percent of the speed of light in a vacuum, this new hollow fiber optic cable is able to reach data speeds of 10 terabytes per second. Now that’s fast. While the idea isn’t new, it’s previously been hampered by signal degradation when light travels around corners. This new hollow fiber optic cable reduces data loss to a manageable 3.5dB/km, making it suitable for use in supercomputer and data center applications.

FiberStore provides a wide range of power cable products including Indoor Cables, Outdoor Cables, FTTH Cables, Armored Cables and some Special Cables. They are used as Aerial Cables, Building Cables, Direct buried cables, Duct Cables, Underwater/Submarine Cable. Customers have the flexibility to choose a cable to best fit their needs.

Located in China “Silicon Valley”, Shenzhen, FiberStore is one of industry’s fastest growing fiber optic network equipment manufacturers with good reputations over the Internet. We are specialized in providing high quality, cost-effective OEM fiber optic products especially fiber optic transceivers to our worldwide ender users and distributors.

FiberStore is a national recognized for its superior products, sufficient stocked inventory, long time warranty, qualified engineers with a commitment to functionally and reliability, and the ability to provide personalized service including highly customized solutions. As the leader in the industry, FiberStore is able to provide industry-standard fiber optic equipment designed to increase capacity and improve performance of the MSO, RBOC, TELCO, enterprice, education and government networks they serve.

FiberStore Fiber Optic Products at a Glance

Optical Transceivers
FiberStore produce and stock for a full range of optical transceivers. All our fiber transceivers are 100% compatible with major brands like Cisco, HP, Juniper, Nortel, Force10, D-link, 3Com, and backed by a lifetime warranty. These small, hot-swappable pluggable interfaces provide physical layer signaling for data, voice, storage and video transport networks over your WDM, CWDM and DWDM configurations.

Passive Optical Components
Integra Networks offers a full line of passive Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) products to assist you in making the most of your network assets by transmitting multiple signals over the same fiber at different wavelengths. FiberStore offers a complete range of passive optical components including WDM/CWDM/DWDM devices, fiber optic attenuator, fiber optic pigtail, fiber optic connector, fiber optic adaptor, etc

Bend Resistance Patch Cables
FiberStore offers a complete line of factory terminated fiber jumpers for multimode and single mode fibers and connector types. We used the most advanced ITU G.657B compliant bend resistant optical fibers where available, along with a manufacturing process that assures superior connector performance. This compliance ensures that we are meeting, if not exceeding the industry standards for optical reflectance and insertion loss.

Fiber Optical Detector Equipment
Fiber optic equipment and test tools of FiberStore are known for portability, stability, quality assurance standards and easy to use and strict control.

Fiber Optic Cable Custom Solutions
All of our fiber cables can be ordered with Single Mode 9/125, Multimode 62.5/125 OM1, Multimode 50/125 OM2 and Multimode 10 Gig 50/125 OM3 fiber. With options for pre-terminated cables including connectors such as LC, SC, ST and even MTP connectors, we can custom fiber optic cables for your particular application. FiberStore offers indoor only, indoor/outdoor and outdoor only outer jackets using Plenum, Riser and Polyethylene materials to provide the best protection and meet any fire-code requirements needed. These cables can be cut to any desired length and come in 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 24, 48 and 72 strand counts, allowing for versatility in custom applications.

FTTH fiber to the home technology is the delivery of information through pulses of light over a fiber optic network directly to the end-user. A FTTH network is easier to maintain and delivers 100 times more bandwidth than coaxial, wireless, or copper networks. It has virtually unlimited capacity to bring telephone, Internet, digital television and other great services to subscribers — with high quality and reliability!

FTTH Fiber Cable is able to deliver a multitude of data, voice and video services to the home more efficiently-and securely-versus traditional copper transport mediums. Fiber optic cables are made up of hundreds or thousands of fibre optics, which are long thin strands of pure glass about the diameter of a human hair, which can carry data at speeds exceeding 2.5 gigabits per second (gbps).

FTTH Fiber Cable replaced the standard copper wire of the native Telco
Cable Systems Fiber offers a 100% fiber optic connection, while companies using partial fiber systems still rely on copper wire to deliver signals over extended distances, leading to poor signal quality. Only a FTTH network can carry high bandwidth signals over long distances using light, which has no interference issues and will deliver superior products.

Typical copper telephone wires carry analog alerts generated by phone gear, including fax machines. Analog technology is, by nature, a less precise signaling technology than digital technology. Though multiplexing has allowed digital alerts to be transmitted across multiple channels over copper strains, FTTH fiber optic cable is superior for relaying these alerts and allows for quicker transfer charges and just about limitless bandwidth. This opens the door to higher Internet speed, streaming video, and other demanding applications.

Copper cabling is an efficient means of delivering information over very short distances. However, networks that rely on partial fiber-to-copper infrastructure are subjected to extreme bottlenecking of information due to a limited amount of available bandwidth. They are susceptible to interference of radio frequencies (RF) and must continuously “refresh” or strengthen the signal to deliver it to the consumer’s home. FTTH networks have virtually limitless bandwidth, which allows free flowing of information at the speed of light. Signals over fiber can travel greater distances without having to be refreshed and are not subject to RF interference.

The Internet utilizes a backbone of fiber optic cables capable of delivering incredible bandwidth. This inherent ability makes it a prime source for advancing network technologies that can be brought to the home or business. Most subscribers, however, log on to this network through copper lines with limited capacity. This creates a bottleneck for advancing technologies that increasingly require greater bandwidth. FTTH bridges this gap.

FTTH services commonly offer a fleet of plans with differing speeds that are price dependent. Fiber optical Cable For FTTH help define successful communities just as good water, power, transportation, public safety, and schools have done for decades. People can work from home – increasing personal productivity and decreased commute times and air pollution.