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Fiber Optic Supplies
Fiber optic supplies include a wide range of products used in the fiber optic communication networks; we would like to give some basic ideas of the most commonly used fiber optic supplies. Here we mainly talk about most commonly sold types in the market.

Fiber optic network use optical fiber to communicate, that is to say, it is not a wireless network, fiber optic cable and cable assemblies are of course indispensable fiber optic supplies. Typical fiber optic cable supplies include single mode fiber cables and multimode fiber cables, and with different kinds to fit for both outdoor and indoor applications. Usually outdoor cables are armored and with strong PE jacket, they are used in backbones. Outdoor fiber cables are big diameter and usually are black color and packed in big reels. Indoor cables are usually yellow color(for single mode) or orange color(for multimode), they are smaller diameter, fiber patch cables are made by indoor fiber cables, usually they are 2mm or 3mm outer diameter cable terminated with different kinds of fiber optic connectors. Couplers and splitters are also cable assemblies, they are fiber optic supplies used to split a fiber optic beam by a certain ratio and send them to different channels.

When we need to link the patch cables or connectors, we need the fiber optic supplies products like adapters and attenuators. The difference of the two products is, attenuator is a product used to reduce the power of fiber light at a certain rate (for example, 2dB) during the linking, adapters is used for linking only. Fiber optic connectors are many types, these connectors are developed by different companies, so the adapters and attenuators are also many types to fit for the connector’s types accordingly. When we need to join the bare fibers, we will use equipment called fiber fusion splicer.

When you used the fiber cable assemblies and components, you will need get some management enclosures or boxes, these are fiber optic supplies used to organize and protect the cables and connections. These products include splice closure, fiber tray, patch panel, optical distribution frame, etc.

During the work we may take various kinds of test to check the optical fiber or the light signal, this is what the test fiber optic supplies work. Fiber test devices usually include OTDR, power meter, light source and fault locators, etc.

Dir and oil are enemy of fiber optic devices, we need cleaning tools to maintain the systems’ work performance. These fiber optic supplies include various fiber cleaners for adapters, connectors and equipments.

We have talked about fiber optic supplies including cables, cable assemblies, splicing tools, fiber optic connectors, adapters, attenuators, management tools, test tools and cleaning tools, there are also media conversion equipment like fiber optic converters, modems, various type transceivers and active fiber optic equipment. Actually the fiber optic industry grows so rapidly and many new products come to the market continuously, we hope the basic idea of the fiber optic supplies will help you better understand the exciting filed.
 

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