Fiber Optic Termination and Splicing Optical fibers are connected to terminal equipment by optical fiber connectors. These connectors are usually of a standard type such as FC, SC, […]

An optical fiber has a core and a cladding. The core diameter of a single mode fiber is approximately 9 micrometers. But more than the geometrical core, the Mode field diameter is important for an optical fiber […]

A submarine communications cable is a cable laid beneath the sea to carry telecommunication signals across continents connecting many countries.

The first submarine communications cables carried telegraphy […]

Sterlite will supply 288F high count Ribbon Fiber optic cables to BSNL, India’s public sector telecommunication operator. This is the first time in India, a company being awarded an order for supply of High c […]

Optical fiber has become the fastest growing access technologies in Taiwan. Taiwan has more than 800,000 Subscribers connected through Fiber optics by the end of June 2008. Much credits goes to the government and […]

Mainly NTT’s plan to achieve the 20 million subscriber target by 2011 has boosted the deployment of FTTH cables in Japan. Along with NTT, it was KDDI which announced 1 Gbps transmission to the Japanese h […]

Communication Through Optical FibersOptical fiber can be used as a medium for telecommunication and networking because it is flexible and can be bundled as cables. It is especially […]

Hardwares for Aerial Fiber Optic Cable Installation Because of the different types of fiber optic dead-ends and tangent assemblies available, it is necessary to select the proper one for the cable […]

This article talks about the submarine cable repairing. You may find this information at Wikipedia, but I took those information to summarize here for our readers.
Submarine cables can be broken by fishing […]

What is Attenuation in an Optical Fiber? Attenuation is the reduction of signal strength or light power over the length of the light-carrying medium. Fiber attenuation is measured in […]

Today the fiber optic technology has reached to the houses in many advanced countries. The demand for optical fiber and related services has grown tremendously and applications of optical fiber are various. Uses […]

Every day we read news about new fiber optic projects coming up from many parts of the world. Fiber optic technology is relatively new in communication having around 30 years of developing experience ever since […]

It is good to start with ‘Once upon a time there lived Mr. Claude Chappe in France who invented the Optical semaphore telegraph. That was in 1790s. The history of Optical communication systems dates back to that p […]

One advance bail we may like to take is for preparing this article we have referred some articles of some European fiber drawing tower manufacturers. Utilization of optical fibers in the field of communication has […]