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A Fiber Broadband Success Story: Sandy, Oregon

jelawrence — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 21:34:19 +0000

Transcript: Sandy Oregon located about 30 miles from downtown Portland is blessed with beautiful mountain scenery but unfortunately its great location also leads to challenges when it comes to being connected to the outside world. In 2002 city officials had the vision to start their own internet service provider and offer affordable internet service to […]

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How Fiber Optic Cables are Made

jelawrence — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 18:53:46 +0000

We invite you on a tour of our fiber optic cable manufacturing facilities in Carrollton, Georgia, USA. View the highly automated OFS manufacturing process that produces a wide variety of fiber optic cables and products for telecommunications applications. Loose tube, microcables, flat ribbon, ADSS, ultra high density rollable ribbon cables and premise cables are all […]

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A Hollow-Core Fiber Cable for Low Latency Transmission – when microseconds count

jfiorentino — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 23:24:22 +0000

AccuCore HCF™ Optical Fiber Cable is the world’s first terrestrial hollow-core fiber (HCF) cable solution. Light travels about 50% faster in a hollow core optical fiber compared to the solid silica core of conventional fiber. Consequently, light transmitted in a hollow-core fiber arrives 1.54 microseconds faster for each kilometer traveled compared with conventional optical fiber. […]

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Optical Fiber Building Solutions

billscully — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 22:33:34 +0000

Optical fiber-to-the-business deployment is accelerating globally to support increasing internet speeds of up to 1 Gigabit per second, and 10 Gigabit speeds that are already available in some regions. Service providers are responding by installing optical fiber both to and deep inside buildings to the living unit. The Solutions in this 64-page guide can help […]

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Now You See Optical Fiber — Now You Don’t

lwerner — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 19:26:19 +0000

How do you make a great fiber optic solution even better? One way is to make the optical fiber less visible while also faster and easier to install. The new InvisiLight® Indoor Living Unit (ILU) 600 Solution from OFS is setting a new benchmark for low-profile visibility. This new solution offers fast and virtually undetectable, […]

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Rollable Ribbon Fiber Optic Cable Keeps on Rolling

lwerner — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 21:48:23 +0000

Searching for a highly-dense fiber optic cable solution with a familiar, cost-effective central core design? Then look no further than the AccuRoll® Dry Core (DC) Rollable Ribbon (RR) Fiber Optic Cable. The newest member of the OFS outside plant (OSP) rollable ribbon fiber optic cable line, the AccuRoll DC RR Cable offers twice the fiber […]

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“EZ-Terminate It” with the FITEL® EZ-Terminator® Tool

lwerner — Thu, 29 Aug 2019 21:36:17 +0000

Searching for an innovative fiber optic termination tool or kit? Then look no further: the FITEL EZ-Terminator tool is here. The newest member of the FITEL Connectivity Solutions portfolio, the EZ-Terminator connector termination tool uses a simple, one-step operation and user-friendly interface to achieve the highest-quality terminations, quickly and under the most demanding conditions. This […]

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Single Mode Optical Fiber Selection Guide

billscully — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 18:56:17 +0000

Download the OFS single-mode optical fiber selection guide for terrestrial applications. Optical fiber applications include transcontinental, regional, metropolitan, home/business access and in-building fiber optic systems. The guide describes several families of OFS optical fibers and provides recommendations for single-mode fibers used in Outside Plant (OSP) as well as Indoor (Premises, Enterprise) applications and their benefits. […]

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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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The Incredible Shrinking, Double-Density Fiber Optic Cable

lwerner — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 20:38:41 +0000

As everyone uses more bandwidth than ever before, today’s networks require more optical fiber in less space. To help address this need, OFS introduced Fortex™ 2DT Fiber Optic Cable, the newest addition to the completely gel-free Fortex DT Cable product line. Fiber Optic Cable: Getting Smaller and More Dense Fortex 2DT Cable is the […]

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