Draka to upgrade to bend-insensitive fibre technology

Tuesday, Apr 05, 2011

Draka Communications' entire current range of UC-branded fibre cabling products with OM3 and OM4 multimode technology will be upgraded from this month to bend-insensitive fibre technology. For cable shipments beginning this month onwards, MaxCap-BB-OM3/4 technology will be included as a standard feature of the cabling product, as well as bend-friendly replacements for OM2 assembly and distribution cables.

Bend-insensitive fibre technology for LAN and data centre cabling provides increased spare system margin that improves 10G and network reliability. It also stimulates the possibility of new, reduced-size cable designs that are lighter in weight, and offer reduced environmental footprints supporting the evolution to greener data centres. In parallel to the continued evolution of OM4 multimode fibre standards, bend-insensitive fibres have been developed to enable more compact cable cabinets. In addition, smaller diameter, cables increase cabling density, alleviating the pressure that optical cabling puts on installation practices by eliminating bending as a factor for data signal loss.

Source: Telecom Paper