by ELIZABETH GOLDSMITH | May 31, 2019
Many OTDRs have only one plug connector, which can make plugging in your MPO confusing. Luckily, there are different ways to connect your OTDR to the MPO connector. If you want to see the MPO connector, you’re going to need a launch fiber. That launch fiber is...
by ELIZABETH GOLDSMITH | Jan 17, 2019
The three most common MPO connector options are MPO-8, MPO-12 and MPO-24. MPO-8 is a legacy standard for the QSFPs, coming out of the transceivers running 40 Gigabit or 100 Gigabits. It is used for both multimode and singlemode transceivers and breakouts, but offers...
by ELIZABETH GOLDSMITH | Jan 17, 2019
The leading cause of network failures is dirty connections. Almost all the time, the dirt is completely invisible to the naked eye, but since the diameter of a fiber core is so small (50 microns for multimode fiber and only 8 microns for singlemode fiber) it...
by ELIZABETH GOLDSMITH | Jan 15, 2019
Polarity defines direction of flow, such as the direction of a magnetic field or an electrical current. In fiber optics, it defines the direction that light signals travels through an optical fiber. To properly send data via light signals, a fiber optic link’s...
by ELIZABETH GOLDSMITH | Jan 15, 2019
An unpinned MPO is inspected in the same way as a pinned MPO, however from an inspection perspective there’s no contact made with the fiber. You’d use the same inspection probes that will find the fibers, inspect them, and do a pass fail analysis. For...
