CAMP MARMAL, Afghanistan -- If you’ve ever watched a technician install television or internet, first imagine the intricate wiring routing and connections necessary for your home, then vastly increase ...

New multicore optical fibers have many times the signal-carrying capacity of traditional single-core fibers, but their use in telecommunications has been restricted because of the challenge in ...

Most of Lake Tahoe was without internet for over 12 hours this past Friday after a garbage truck severed a Charter Communications fiber-optic line near the Minden-Tahoe Airport. The incident also left ...

Fujikura has become one of the largest cable manufacturers in the world, specialising in many industries including electrical and telecommunications cable, optic fibre cable, automotive products, ...

Many electricians have broadened their work model in recent years to include coaxial and Ethernet wiring for communications and data networks. This is usually seen as a good move, given the fact that ...

It’s 2010, which means it’s almost the future, which means pretty soon your speaker wire-stripping and Cat 5 cable-crimping skills will about as useful as knowing how to cobble a pair of shoes. Here’s ...

SPARTANBURG, S.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AFL enhances fiber preparation and protection for fusion splicing with Fujikura’s new lineup of specialty fusion splicing accessories: the FSR-115, FSR-116 and ...

In this EC&M Tech Talk, Randy Barnett reviews the concepts, cables used, and NEC rules for Optical Fiber Cables (Art. 770). With the widespread use of fiber and expansion into residential markets, ...

New multicore optical fibers have many times the signal-carrying capacity of traditional single-core fibers, but their use in telecommunications has been severely restricted because of the challenge ...