Nowadays, almost all enterprise-class switches include two or more SFP (small form-factor pluggable) ports, allowing them to become part of a ring or star-based network topology spread among different buildings, floors or areas, and connec…
To build a flexible and tidy cabling system. Patch panels are something we can never forget. The panel enables speedy UTP interconnections to hubs, routers, and other active equipment. Ethernet patch panel on the market comes in various ty…
High density has been a hotly contested subject in the world of data centers for years. Today’s cyber world is moving ahead at an incredible speed, we’ve seen an unprecedented the demand for high-speed and high-density in data center. And …
Although white box switches have been emerged for years, many people still tend to consider switches first from branded companies first when buying a fiber optic switch. The adoption of white box switch has been limited to niche companies …
When it comes to selecting 40G QSFP modules, customers may be dazzled by the various products provided by various suppliers. Some of them may directly purchase from big brands like Cisco. Actually, except for those well known brands, many …
For the past few decades since 1980s, many different types of fiber optic connectors such as MTP connector and MPO connector, have been provided by various manufacturers. Despite the fact that these types of optical connector varies greatl…
When we talk about multi-fiber connector, MTP connector and MPO connector are two words that are inevitably to be mentioned. For many people, they are just the same thing. However, the fact is that MTP connector and MPO connector differ fr…
MTP, short for Multi-fiber Termination Push-on, is the standardized terminating end of a multi-fiber cable which can support for all practical intents and purposes up to 24 fiber strands per connector. The MTP fiber connector is an improve…
With an increasing demand for faster data transfer speed, the capacity to transfer data as efficiently as possible remains the main force in today’s communication age. Since the backbone of most modern digital information systems is suppor…
Polarization-maintaining optical fiber (PM fiber) is a special optical fiber with strong built-in birefringence, which can preserve the properly oriented linear polarization of an input beam. Usually, optical fibers will exhibit some degre…
It can’t be denied that CWDM technology is a cost effective method to increase the capacity in the existing system, which can give different wavelengths to multiple optical signals and multiplex them for transmission through only one singl…
As long-distance transmissions are always required in the CATV systems, it is very necessary to make the quality of visual and audio signals in high levels after the long transmissions, so that the performance of the CATV systems can be en…
Clearly different from the traditional repeater, the EDFA amplifier doesn’t need to convert the optical signals into electrical ones, then make the electrical amplification and finally convert the amplified electrical signals into amplifie…
Although the 40G and 100G technologies develop vigorously recent years to meet the increasing need of higher capacity, they are still not widely accepted and applied due to high deploying cost. Under this case, choosing to build a 10G netw…
To face the need for long-haul, high-capacity transmission, experts come up with several DWDM projects including DWDM Mux Demux, EDFA amplifier (erbium-doped fiber amplifier) and DCM module (dispersion compensation module) to expand networ…
Currently, utilizing WDM technology to deploy the optical network has received widespread attentions, which enables higher capacity for data transmission. However, the technology is also limited by the transmission distance. When deploying…
When facing the capacity-hungry issue, have you ever hesitated over which WDM system should be choose? As the CWDM system is a more economical solution for limited expanding capacity while the expensive DWDM solution enables much higher ca…
Nowadays, CWDM technology is very popularly used as a easy and economical way to extend the network capacity by carrying several signals with different wavelengths through a signal fiber. If your network capacity is not enough for your dai…
It is well known that there are two transmission ways for fiber optical network, single fiber transmission and dual fiber transmission. From the name, it is easy to learn that the fiber amount is the main difference of these two transmissi…
When designing the fiber optical network, we used to choose the duplex fiber cable as the first choice to finish the dual-way transmission, which transmits the dual-way signals via two separate simplex cables from the opposite sides. Howev…
Nowadays, most users choose to deploy 10G and 40G network that perform highly and efficiently in their systems. It cannot be denied that the bandwidth and capacity the 10G and 40G network provide are enough for their needs at present. Howe…
As we all know, Ubiquiti is a famous company that provides various kinds of switches, including Edge Switch, Edge Router, UniFi Switch. What does attract more attention is, this company firstly published its own SFP and SFP+ fiber optic tr…
In general, the direct attach cable assemblies can be simply divided into two types, fiber type that can be called active optical cable (AOC), and copper type which basically includes active and passive direct attach copper cable (DAC), de…
Have you ever used the Cisco direct attach SFP+ twinax cable for connecting Cisco switches, as a cost-effective alternative to Cisco SFP+ transceivers for short-distance, high-speed connection? Or choosing other branded 10G SFP direct atta…
Although most data centers still deploy the 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) networks, the 40/100 GbE networks have gradually become new and preferable options for them, which can be also reflected from the greatly increasing shipments of 40/100G…
Transceivers like Cisco SFP+, Juniper SFP+ are always used for deploying 10G Ethernet network, while transceivers like Cisco QSFP+, Juniper QSFP+ are chosen to deploy 40G Ethernet network if the network capacity and speed provided by the 1…
Various kinds of cable management tools like wire ties, J-Hooks, and cable lacing bars were designed and came into the market to meet the growing requirements of high density network, which enables better cable management. Among this tools…
Background Introduction When holding and pulling the Cat 5e patch cords to deploy high density network, you should do some special handling for them, so that they can be more supported than the less-sensitive voice-grade cables used in tra…
As we know, Ethernet patch cable can be divided into unshielded and shielded Ethernet cable (also referred to as UTP and STP cable) according to whether it is to be shielded. Except that, the Ethernet patch cable can also be divided into i…
As the need for high bandwidth and fast data transmission rate is on the rise, the deployment of 10G Ethernet network becomes much more common and popular than ever before. Cat 6a cabling, the most proper cabling infrastructure for deployi…
