Fiber Optic Cabling · 26. October 2017

Fiber optic cable has been widely used in telecom industry for its fast transmission speed. As people’s demand for bandwidth is increasing, optical fiber cable is not only used in enterprise network, but also applied to home network deployment. And FTTH (Fiber to the home) project is a typical example. This article will focus on FTTH cabling solution.

Fiber Optic Cabling · 13. October 2017

We know that, no natter what component you use, there must insertion loss in your fiber optic cabling. Therefore, in order to make your fiber optic cabling system perform at high level, calculating the amount of insertion loss before cable plant is necessary. This article will focus on fiber optic link loss.

15. September 2017

Though many enterprise networks and big data centers have been upgraded to 40G or 100G Ethernet network, 10G Ethernet network still has its place in small homelab deployment. As an important component, 10Gb switch has been a hot topic among many engineers. If you are familiar with fiber optic networking, you must know the following brands: MikroTik, Dell, Ubiquiti and so on. They all provide 10G switches. And this article want to share some 10Gb switches under $550 with you.

22. May 2017

We know that MTP/MPO cable is a great option for nowadays data center fiber optic cabling which needs higher and higher cabling density and transmission capability. In most cases, 12-fiber MTP cable is used to realize 10G to 40G or 40G to 40G connection. However, there is a problem in this cabling system—only eight fibers of the 12-fiber MTP cable are used (four fibers for transmitting and four fibers for receiving), leaving the middle four fibers unused. That means using 12-fiber MTP cable...