Which Fiber Optics?

Whenever you read an article or talk to someone about fiber optics, you need to know the point of view. We're mainly concerned with communications fiber optics, but it's also used in medical or nondestructive testing inspection and lighting. Fiber optics, you see, is not all the same.

Even in communications, we have "outside plant" fiber optics as used in telephone networks, CATV, metropolitan networks, utilities, etc. or "premises" fiber optics as found in buildings and campuses.Just like "wire" which can mean lots of different things - power, security, HVAC, CCTV, LAN or telephone - fiber optics is not all the same. And this can be a big source of confusion to the novice. Lets define our terms.

November 30, 2011

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