Hello, everyone!
In today's article, I will shortly explain new invisible technology and standard of optical fiber. It is about the installation of "invisible" drop optical cables. This is a very interesting topic today. An increasing number of telecommunications operators are opting for these solutions. This is especially interesting when we talk about solutions such as FTTR, FTTH, and FTTO. Let’s get started.
Situations are common where people do not want their cables to be seen. Installing special PVC channels is expensive and requires additional work. In addition, PVC channels are not always an acceptable solution. Aesthetics are very important to today's users. Despite all this, bending drop cables in houses and apartments often leads to great attenuation and problems such as interruption of all services or interruption of CATV services. That is why many companies have started to develop solutions that would meet these needs.
The drop cable uses the ITU G.657 standard or most commonly ITU G.657.A2. This standard consists of G.657.A1, G.657.A2, G.657.B2, and G.657.B3. Until now, G.657.B3 was considered the best standard for indoor optical cables. This standard allows for 5 mm band radius fiber. Company OFS has developed a new type of optical fiber. It is an EZ-Bend fiber. This allows the optical fiber to bend twice as much as with the ITU G.657.B3 standard.
Source: https://www.ofsoptics.com/knowledge-base/
A large number of tests have shown the superiority of new optical fibers. So today they are in the commercial offer.
Source: https://www.ofsoptics.com/knowledge-base/
Let's go back to the "invisible" drop optical cable. It can in principle use ITU G.657 standards or a new OFS solution. These types of optical cables are easy, simple, and quick to install in home or apartment. They are visually invisible, that is, they fit into the environment. In this way, customer satisfaction is increased. Special tools are used for cable installation. Drop cables come in several variants, indoor and outdoor, without optical connectors or with SC or LC optical connectors. Fiber optic cables end in a specially designed plastic ATB. ATB is also specially designed to maintain the aesthetics of the apartment or house. It can only allow splicing or connector connection for 1 or 2 access ports. Optical adapters can be top, boot, or back.
The next figure shows installation tools and accessories.
Source: https://www.ofsoptics.com/knowledge-base/
This is the end of this interesting topic. I hope you learned something new!
Thank you!
Reference: https://www.ofsoptics.com/knowledge-base/
