Fiber optic cable symbolizes the pinnacle of high-speed data communication mediums.
Today's low-loss glass fiber optic cable provides almost unlimited bandwidth and unique advantages over all previously developed transmission media. Fiber optic transmission systems provide benefits that traditional copper wire or coaxial cable cannot, including:
- Speed: Fiber optic networks operate at high speeds - up into the gigabits
- Bandwidth: large carrying capacity
- Distance: Signals can be transmitted further without needing to be "refreshed" or strengthened.
- Resistance: Greater resistance to electromagnetic noise such as radios, motors or other nearby cables.
- Maintenance: Fiber optic cables costs much less to maintain.
Single Mode Fiber Optic is a single stand of glass fiber with a diameter of 8.3 to 10 microns that has one mode of transmission. Single Mode Fiber with a relatively narrow diameter, through which only one mode will propagate typically 1310 or 1550nm. Carries higher bandwidth than multimode fiber, but requires a light source with a narrow spectral width. Synonyms mono-mode optical fiber, single-mode fiber, single-mode optical waveguide, uni-mode fiber.
Single-mode fiber gives you a higher transmission rate and up to 50 times more distance than multimode, but it also costs more. Single-mode fiber has a much smaller core than multimode. The small core and single light-wave virtually eliminate any distortion that could result from overlapping light pulses, providing the least signal attenuation and the highest transmission speeds of any fiber cable type. Single-mode optical fiber is an optical fiber in which only the lowest order bound mode can propagate at the wavelength of interest typically 1300 to 1320nm.
Multimode Fiber Optic is made of of glass fibers, with a common diameters in the 50-to-100 micron range for the light carry component (the most common size is 62.5). POF is a newer plastic-based cable which promises performance similar to glass cable on very short runs, but at a lower cost. Multimode fiber gives you high bandwidth at high speeds over medium distances. Light waves are dispersed into numerous paths, or modes, as they travel through the cable's core typically 850 or 1300nm. Typical multimode fiber core diameters are 50, 62.5, and 100 micrometers. However, in long cable runs (greater than 3000 feet [914.4 ml), multiple paths of light can cause signal distortion at the receiving end, resulting in an unclear and incomplete data transmission.
No matter what you´re looking for in terms of fiber cabling, whether it be multimode or single mode fiber, Elis Communications can provide fiber solutions to meet all of your company´s needs.