DSL, satellite, fiber-optic, and cable are all options for internet and TV service across the country, and keeping track of the differences can be a difficult and involved process.

Sumitomo Electric Industries has developed a multi-core optical fiber (MCF) including 8 cores within in the standard 125-μm cladding suitable for optical interconnects, and realized an ...

Your fiber optic cable may be one of two sizes. The outer diameter of the more robust cable is about the size of a standard No. 2 pencil. A much smaller cable can also snake its way through your home.

The test used a 19-core optical fiber with a standard cladding diameter of 0.125 mm, meaning it’s the same thickness as the single-core fibers already deployed in networks around the world.

Those people will collect on that funding, and then we will supply them with cable.” How is fiber made? About 280 people work at the fiber plant in two 12-hour shifts, starting at 7 a.m. and 7 p.m.

Roughly, 6 pair fiber is ~5.5mm in diameter which is ~25 mm2 in cross sectional area, which is effectively like pulling a #3 cable. I'm going to assume this is a subpanel, which requires 4 ...

When a spectrometer is being configured for a given experiment, one of the commonly overlooked considerations is in selecting the best fiber optic cable. While there are many different factors to ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. , June 19, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — CABLExpress announced today at NY Tech Summit that it has reduced the diameter and weight of its Skinny-Trunk® fiber optic trunk cables to allow for ...