Structured cabling: New fiber friend

Usage of fiber cables by enterprises have been increasing as there has been an upsurge in the bandwidth demand owing to the steady increase of data intensive applications and VoIP over the enterprise networks. However, conventional fiber is considered vulnerable for bending as there are inherent losses when we tend to bend these fibers during the deployment.

This has resulted in fear psychosis among cabling integrators that deploying fiber cable is difficult compared to copper cables. This is one of the main reasons that it did not have a great uptake in the Indian market, though the story is quite opposite in the developed countries.

Now, the question is that which innovation can make deploying fiber easy for enterprises? The solution lies in making fiber 'bend insensitive', so that the fiber will not be broken easily during the deployment.

Bend insensitive fiber is more appropriately called 'less bend sensitive fiber', or 'bend resistant fiber', or 'bend optimized fiber', or 'bend improved fiber' to reflect the true nature of the technology.

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