Starting in the mid 1990’s, several building wiring standards, usually based on the American EIA/TIA 568 series (eg, Australian/New Zealand AS/NZS 3080), were released that specified the SC type connector for most applications within premises wiring systems. Unfortunately, many people … Continue reading
This is a question we are often asked by customers in relation to almost all of our products. The answer, of course, is: “It depends”. It depends on several things: The individual product How the product is configured (eg type … Continue reading
At OSD we have been saying for years that singlemode fiber is far better technically than multimode and that the cost premium once seen for SM equipment is slowly starting to disappear. In fact, most of OSD’s new products over … Continue reading
In “the good old days” some things in the world of fiber optics were very, very difficult: fibers were often manufactured with very poor control over physical geometry, impurity levels and doping profiles so that they were usually quite lossy, … Continue reading
Anyone who has read a few of these Tech Corners will have noticed a certain cynicism with respect to the marketing of multimode fibers and our constant exhortation : don’t do it! By almost any measure and in almost all … Continue reading
Fiber equipment suppliers often use two optical wavelengths to enable bidirectional transmission over the one fiber, usually 1310 and 1550nm on singlemode and 850 and 1310nm on multimode. See “Fiber Operating Wavelengths Why so many” for more background information on this. … Continue reading