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Fluke Networks today introduced the DSX-8000 CableAnalyzer, which it said is the first field tester independently certified and endorsed to meet all the requirements for the Category 8 field testing standard.
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The Association for Passive Optical LAN (APOLAN), a non-profit organization that is driving adoption and educating the market about passive optical local area networks (LAN), will showcase the Association’s growing success and educational expertise at the BICSI 2017 Winter Conference & Exhibition taking place in in Tampa, Fla. next week.
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Avaya Inc. this morning announced that it has filed voluntary petitions under chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York (the "Court"). The company’s foreign affiliates, which includes Avaya Canada are not included in the filing and according to Avaya “will continue normal operations.”
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AFL, a global manufacturer of fiber optic cable and accessories, has added to its tactical fiber optic cable line by introducing micro-tactical cable. Designed for rapid deployment in networks that require high mechanical performance specifications, AFL’s micro-tactical cable combines ruggedness with ultra-high fiber density. The military-grade cable withstands high tensile loads, severe crushing forces, repeated impacts and extreme temperatures.
With fiber counts up to 96, the higher fiber density allows for longer deployment lengths without sacrificing bandwidth, the company says, adding that with longer assembly lengths, optical connections are reduced thereby enhancing network performance.
AFL offers a variety of tactical cable jacket materials enabling the cable to be used in areas where it may be exposed to high temperatures, wet locations, industrial chemicals and severe mechanical stresses. The micro-tactical cable is designed for the broadcast industry, as well as military, mining, rail and petrochemical applications.
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To help cable installers and maintenance technicians select the correct fibre optic testing equipment, IDEAL Networks recently published a white paper that offers guidance on the different tiers for certifying fibre optic cabling.
“Unlike copper cabling, there are two tiers available when certifying fibre optic cabling and these dictate which type of tests must be performed, and therefore which testers should be used,” says Dan Payerle, the firm’s business unit manager.
“To remove confusion around which type of test should be used, and whether performing Tier-2 certification also meets the requirements of Tier-1 certification, the white paper clarifies the different requirements in detail as well as looking at the advantages of different testers and how they work.”
Tier-1 certification is a measurement of the total insertion loss (or attenuation) of cabling from one end of the link to the other and either uses an optical power meter and optical light source (PM/LS) or an optical loss test set (OLTS) for testing. Tier-2 certification provides loss information about each component of the link and uses an OTDR (optical time domain reflectometer) to perform certification, providing a useful graphical representation of each connection, splice and cable segment in the link and their performance.
Download the white paper.
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