March 17, 2010 – Corning Inc. has announced that effective April 1, 2010, ClearCurve multimode optical fiber will become its standard 50-micron multimode fiber product offering. Introduced in 2009, ClearCurve multimode fiber is the world’s first laser-optimized, high-bandwidth, multimode fiber to withstand bends at 7.5 mm radius with substantially less signal loss than traditional multimode [...]
January 15, 2010 – Mohawk, a fiber optic products manufacturer in Leominster, Mass., is introducing rugged fiber optic cable for applications in harsh environments such as broadcast, mining, industrial, and military communications. Mohawk’s re-deployable optical fiber cable was designed to rugged military mechanical standards and will stand up to harsh field abuse in harsh elements [...]
November 13, 2009 – Berk-Tek, a leading provider of fiber optic cabling solutions, says that its fiber-optic cable family includes fiber grades that exceed the recently ratified TIA-492AAAD for OM4 specifications. OM4 fiber is a 50-µm laser-optimized multimode fiber with extended bandwidth properties over the previous OM3. It is designed to enhance the system cost [...]
