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MDU!Click, An FTTx Installation System

jelawrence — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 13:24:53 +0000

Pay as you grow with MDU!Click Transcript Hi, I’m John George, Senior Director of Solutions Engineering and Fusion Splicers at OFS. What’s new in my world is our new MDU!Click® Solution for fiber deployment in buildings. With the MDU!Click Solution we can defer the cost of a splitter module until we have a higher take […]

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FAQ Guide to Laser-Optimized Fiber

billscully — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 18:29:09 +0000

As transmission speeds over optical fiber networks in the enterprise increase to 10 Gigabits per second (Gb/s) and beyond, a relatively new term – “laser-optimized fiber” – has crept into the industry’s vocabulary. What is laser-optimized fiber? What do you need to know about it? And what exactly does the term “laser- optimized” mean? Understanding […]

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When Optical Fiber Arrives

lwerner — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 20:52:14 +0000

Using optical fiber networks, people can access and share information at an amazing level. They can communicate, work and learn from virtually anywhere there’s an Internet connection. For people in rural communities that lack wireless or broadband services, their ability to obtain information is clearly unequal. Even getting a signal for a cellphone or laptop […]

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Lighting Up Dark Fiber

lwerner — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 20:11:18 +0000

Last month, internet speeds in Jackson, Mississippi, jumped from 1 Gb to 100 Gb. This leap forward is part of the city’s work to light up “dark fiber” in the robust fiber optic network that it owns. The Origin of Dark Fiber The term “dark fiber” refers to unused or underused fiber optic infrastructure (optical fibers, […]

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