Fibre optic cables are cables that carry light rather than electrical current. The cables comprise of a a number of optical strands. Modern fiber cables can contain up to a thousand fibers in a single cable.
Fibre optic cables are cables that carry light rather than electrical current. The cables comprise of a a number of optical strands. Modern fiber cables can contain up to a thousand fibers in a single cable.
Figre optic cables allow very fast data speeds (up to terabytes per second)
Unlike cat5 and cat 6 cables. Fibre optic cables can offer much longer cable runs, making it desirable for large office and intra-office applications.
Historically fibre optoic cables have been restricted to external use and comm-bix to comm-box trunking. However, fibre to the desk networks are becoming much more common, offering unprecedented data speeds.
Optical fibre truly is the ultimate communication medium. It is compact and easy to install. It has enormous bandwidth. and is completely immune to EMI and RFI. It does not require special routing in the office and is becoming more affordable.
Available in 2 forms
Optical fibre is available in two fundamental forms - singlemode and multimode. Traditionally singlemode has been used by the phone companies for long distance trunks, whilst multimode has been used by companies for in-house communications. This distinction still exists, although the point of demarcation is blurring, with more singlemode being brought into the building.
Multimode
The current infrastructure Molex Premise Networks promotes for the inhouse Structured Cabling System is multimode optical fibre backbone between Floor Distributors on each floor and UTP cabling to the desk on each floor from the Floor Distributor.
OFTDTM
Optical fibre is however increasing it's use with Optical-Fibre-To-the-Desk (OFTDTM) becoming popular, and many industrial sites engaging fibre in high EMI environments.
