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Tips for Choosing Fiber Optic Cables

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If at all you are planning for cabling your setup, some of the most essential things that will go into this are the cables. And for the best results out of the project, you need to ensure that you have chosen only the best cables. Cables come of various kinds and for the uninitiated, telling the right one can be a challenge for a fact. There are so many things that you will have to take into consideration when it comes to the need to get the best of the fiber optic cables for your project. Read on and find out what factors they are. 

Over and above the fiber mode, the tubing and the application, whether outdoor or indoor, you need to be aware of the fact that there are a lot of the other specifications that you have to look into so as to get the best of the fiber optic cables for your project. Some of these specifications are such as the cladding size, the number of the optical fibers, LAN or WAN applications.

Whenever you are going for a fiber optic cable, you need to mention clearly the size of the fiber strand that you need. This is to be specified by the core/cladding size ratio. Read on and see some of the most common core/cladding ratios as mentioned below. Visit http://www.multidyne.com/

One of these ratios are the 8.3/125 which is the size of the single mode fiber. In this fiber, you will see the fact that the core itself is just ten times larger than the wavelength of the light that it will be carrying. It allows light travel in a straight line with minimal bouncing. The other core/ratio cladding available is the 62.5/125. This is the most common kind of cable size for the multimode cable. However when the 50/125 cable size came in, the latter became the more pronounced and preferred choice for many. The 50/125 cable size is generally an updated version of the multimode fiber. Some of the features it comes with are such as the better transmission bandwidth and distance.

After you have settled for the fiber size, the next thing that you need to look at is the number of fibers that you will require in a single cable. In this regard, you need to know that depending on the application, the design might call for two or more than two fibers. Generally, there are variations when it comes to the amounts of cables. View https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f22dFwP3j9U

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