December 10, 2015Lightwave Staff Google Fiber says it has "invited" Chicago and Los Angeles to discuss bringing the company's gigabit broadband services to their cities. Adding the two cities a€“ the largest with which Google Fiber has eng…

Various copper and fiber choices are available on the market today. When deciding a cabling system, network managers should know how to choose the most appropriate cabling system for their network infrastructure in the long run. Many of th…

10GBASE SFP+ module, a 10GbE optics using the same physical form factor as a gigabit SFP, is a new protocol that will support the link lengths of a standard Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI)-grade multi-mode fiber (MMF). When using t…

QSFP active optical cable (AOC) is a high performance, low power consumption, long reach interconnect solution supporting 40G Ethernet, fiber channel and PCIE. It is widely used in many fields as well as promoting the traditional data cent…

There is no question that we live in a high-speed world. Active optical cable (AOC), especially parallel multi-lane cables using QSFP+ modules, is one of the most important devices used by high-speed interconnects, such as InfiniBand, and …

December 14, 2015Author Stephen HardyEditorial Director and Associate Publisher UK fiber-optic network services provider CityFibre says it has acquired the national fiber-optic network infrastructure and ductwork of KCOM for £90 million (…

10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) is a group of computer networking technologies for transmitting Ethernet frames at a rate of 10 gigabits per second. There are several kinds of optical transceiver modules used for 10 Gigabit Ethernet. Small for…

A quad small form-factor pluggable plus (QSFP+) cable is a fiber optic cable capped at either end with the QSFP+ transceiver, which is designed for data rates up to 40Gb/s supporting Fibre Channel, Ethernet, Infiniband standards and so on.…

The 802.3ba Ethernet standard introduced by the IEEE in June 2010 was in response to the increasing bandwidth demands facing data centers, paving the way for the introduction of 40Gb/s and 100Gb/s Ethernet operations. As you begin to think…

Transmission speeds are continuing to rise as consumers demand ever higher performance from a variety of communications devices. If you are thinking about upgrading your server network connections, you may want to know about an emerging pl…

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - Oficina de Información CientíficaJanuary 19, 2015 Optic fiber is normally used in the field of telecommunications to transmit information using light, but a group of researchers developed a technique that…

Many modern optical transceivers utilize two fibers to transmit data between switches, firewalls, servers, routers, etc. One fiber is dedicated to receiving data from networking equipment, and the other is to transmit data to the networkin…

The enhanced small form-factor pluggable (SFP+) is an enhanced version of the SFP that supports data rates up to 10 Gbit/s. This specification was first introduced in May 2006 and has been entering designs since its introduction. More and …

SFP, SFP+, and XFP are all terms for a type of transceiver that plugs into a special port on a switch or other network device to convert the port to a copper or fiber interface. These compact transceivers replace the older, bulkier GBIC in…

There are many types of transceivers to support different types of fiber connections. Which transceiver is the right one for your application? The answer largely depends on how far your connections need to travel. When looking at transceiv…

In computer networking, we know that 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GE or 10GbE) refers to various technologies for transmitting Ethernet frames at a rate of 10 gigabits per second, first defined by the IEEE 802.3ae-2002 standard. To meet a wide v…

As 10 Gigabit Ethernet broadly rolls out and increasing numbers of enterprises begin the process of evaluating network upgrades, numerous physical-layer interconnects are available to address 10Gbit/s data transmission. These include 10GBA…

Fiber optic patch cord is a fiber optic cable capped at both ends with fiber optic connectors to allow it to be rapidly and conveniently connected to telecommunication equipment and to achieve accurate and precise connections. Fiber optic …

Just as 10 gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) technologies have changed, so have the cabling technologies that support them and the devices that connect the cabling to their network. Optical transceivers provide the interface between the equipment s…

In computer networking, Gigabit Ethernet is a term describing various technologies for transmitting Ethernet frames at a rate of a gigabit per second, as defined by the IEEE 802.3-2008 standard. As a type of wiring for Gigabit Ethernet, yo…

The 1000BASE designation is an IEEE shorthand identifier. The "1000" in the media type designation refers to the transmission speed of 1000 Mbps. The "BASE" refers to baseband signaling, which means that only Ethernet signals are carried o…

Fiber optic patch cord, also known as fiber optic patch cable or fiber jumper, is a fiber optic cable terminated with fiber optic connectors on its both ends. According to fiber cable structures, fiber optic patch cords can be divided into…

MTP stands for multi-fiber termination push-on. MTP connector is designed as a high-performance version of the multi-fiber push on (MPO). The two terms both are used for fiber-optic cabling, and they are often used interchangeably. MTP/MPO…

Networking may be straightforward, but the world of networking terminology is not. Even when you've been steeped in business of Ethernet for many years, you may still get confused by some of the terms. What are 1000BASE-T and 1000BASE-TX a…

In optical fiber communication field, optical transceiver module is very important and widely used by communication systems and local area networks (LANs) built in big companies for both conversion and transmission functions. Receiving the…

Born in the 1970s, Ethernet technology has continually evolved in order to meet the never-ending requirement for faster rates of data transmission. Data carrying techniques have also evolved quickly to meet the demand for faster applicatio…

The most common passive optical network (PON) standards in current use are Ethernet passive optical network (EPON) and gigabit passive optical network (GPON). GPON is the most widely deployed optical system in today's fiber-to-the-home (FT…

An OTDR uses the effects of Rayleigh scattering and Fresnel reflection to measure the characteristics of an optical fiber. It locates defects and faults, and determines the amount of signal loss at any point in an optical fiber, and it can…

Knowing when to use a single-mode fiber optic cable is very necessary for people who want to design a reliable and sustainable optical network. There are advantages of using single-mode fiber optic cable. Here is what you need to consider …

In a fiber optic system, it is essential to join two fibers together with low signal attenuation while maintaining low reflection levels. Fiber optic connectors are used as the mechanical and optical means for cross connecting fibers and l…