Properties of Fiber-Optic Cabling
- Not as common as UTP because of the expense involved
- Ideal for some networking scenarios
- Transmits data over longer distances at higher bandwidth than any other networking media
- Less susceptible to attenuation, and completely immune to EMI/RFI
- Made of flexible, extremely thin strands of very pure glass
- Uses a laser or LED to encode bits as pulses of light
- The fiber-optic cable acts as a wave guide to transmit light between the two ends with minimal signal loss
Types of Fiber Media
Fiber-Optic Cabling Usage
Fiber-optic
cabling is now being used in four types of industry:
- Enterprise Networks - Used for backbone cabling applications and interconnecting infrastructure devices
- Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) - Used to provide always-on broadband services to homes and small businesses
- Long-Haul Networks - Used by service providers to connect countries and cities
- Submarine Cable Networks - Used to provide reliable high-speed, high-capacity solutions capable of surviving in harsh undersea environments at up to transoceanic distances.
Fiber-Optic Connectors
- Straight-Tip (ST) Connectors
- Lucent Connector (LC) Simplex Connectors
- Subscriber Connector (SC) Connectors
- Duplex Multimode LC Connectors
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