Most of Lake Tahoe was without internet for over 12 hours this past Friday after a garbage truck severed a Charter Communications fiber-optic line near the Minden-Tahoe Airport. The incident also left ...

Structured cabling specifications ensure you purchase and install the right product for every job. Most significant installations of structured cabling begin with written specifications for each ...

There are two different ways to join two optical fibers: fiber splice or fiber optical connector. Fiber splices are permanent joints, while fiber optical connectors allow the two fibers to be ...

New multicore optical fibers have many times the signal-carrying capacity of traditional single-core fibers, but their use in telecommunications has been severely restricted because of the challenge ...

Some Samsung TVs come with a system called One Connect, where all external cabling is connected to a separate box so that only one small signal cable goes to the TV. In some versions, the cable ...

The use of communicating via light undoubtedly goes back many centuries. The Chinese and Native Americans were the first to use smoke signals for long distance communications, a type of optical ...

DVD covers PAS, LID and fixed V-groove fusion splicers The Light Brigade announces its new menu-based DVD titled Fiber Optic Splicing, the sixth release in the company's new Staff Development series.

The Code requirements for optical fiber vary with the type of cable used Fiber optic cable has many advantages over competing technologies, including increased information capacity (by orders of ...