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Communication is the sharing of ideas, information and messages in a specific time and area. As a way of contact; It includes nonverbal communication like facial expressions and body language, visual communication with the use of images, photographs, or moving imagery, in addition to electronic communication using telephones, internet networks, cable TV and satellite receiver. 

A fiber optic cable contains one or many optic fibers which are covered by several protective layers and are used to transfer light signals. The main purpose of fiber optic cables is speed and bandwidth because light signals can transfer a huge amount of data in less time compared to regular cables, which contain copper wires and transfer electrical signals.

This fiber loss calculator can estimate the total fiber link loss through a particular fiber optic link if the fiber length, the number of splices and number of connectors are known. This calculation is simply the sum of all worst-case loss variables in the link.

CPR is an acronym for Construction Products Regulation and it is a combination of standards and common technical language that offers uniform performance and safety assessment system of construction products that are made by or imported to the European Union market.

There are several types of fiber optic cables, and they are differentiated according many construction properties like the core, buffer, fiber count, cable arrangement, sub units, filling, strength member, and outer jacket. Mixing all these properties, with each having its own derivative options, results in a large variety of fiber optical cables that can be used for different applications.

With 5G Technology, speeds can reach up to 10 times faster than 4G, and delays in packet transmission are reduced by at least 20 times to 1ms. In addition, the increased density of network-connected devices will allow up to 1 million devices in one square kilometer to connect to a 5G network.

An optical switch is a multi-port network bridge, which connects multiple optic fibers to each other and controls data packets routing between inputs and outputs. Some optical switches convert light to electrical data before forwarding it and converting it into a light signal again. Other optical switches, which are called All-optical, can route and forward the light pulses themselves without any electrical conversion.

Fusion Splicing means securely connecting two optical fiber cables by heating their core end faces and pushing them together to make them fuse together and become as a single fiber that can transfer light signal with near zero loss at the splicing point.

Explore how fiber optic technologies are transforming modern defense—from autonomous vehicles and hypersonic threat detection to quantum-secure communication and electromagnetic pulse resilience. Learn how strategic military systems depend on fiber networks for speed, stealth, and survivability.

Fiber optic distributed acoustic sensing systems rely on using an optical fiber cable distributed over long distances. Using a fiber optic sensing cable, an interrogator can detect and measure any movement, vibration and sound that happen within the cable’s sensing range. Distributed fiber optic sensing cables can make security systems more sensitive, discrete, and cover longer distances. 

The meaning of data center is not absolute, but it is essentially a collection of storage, processing and networking used to keep and give access to data, services and applications. A physical or a cloud data center may include additional equipment, software or systems.

A uniboot patch cord is a round duplex fiber cable with uniboot duplex LC connectors on both sides. Uniboot patch cords are the ultimate solutions for high density data center applications. They save half the cabling space and make reversing the polarity very easy. Uniboot patch cords, with uniboot lc duplex connectors can reverse polarity without the need to change the whole patch cord.

Due to the fact that the eye is most vulnerable to excessive laser light, laser beams are categorized into Classes (Class1, Class2, Class3, Class4) according to their ability to harm people, particularly causing eye damage.

The Ethernet was founded by Robert Metcalfe and David Boggs in 1973. The first network connecting computers across the US was called the ARPAnet and Harvard university refused to let Robert Metcalfe work on connecting their computers to the ARPAnet. 

The fiber optic connection from an ISP to a customer includes several check points, and the fiber line can be terminated and linked to a metallic line using optical transceivers at any of these check points, until it reaches the client. The fiber to the X (FTTX) concept comes from this idea that the point where a fiber line is terminated into a metallic line determines the topology of the line and the distribution network infrastructure. 

MPO connectors are fiber optic connectors with multi fiber connectivity and a push on coupling, that’s why they are called MPO “multi-fiber push on”. MPO connectors support higher bandwidth and higher density applications with 12 to 24 fiber count, which also can reach 48 or 72 in some limited applications.

In today's world, cable management in data centers, telecom infrastructures, and industrial facilities is critically important. The most effective solution for protecting fiber optic cables, which form the backbone of high-speed internet and telecommunication networks, is fiber ducting systems.

Once mere light experiments confined to laboratories, they have now transformed into the digital veins of the planet. Fiber optic cables carry light, not electricity; invisible yet indispensable. These unseen laser pulses form the infrastructure of the modern world, connecting continents. Here are 20 surprisingly interesting facts about this technology.