Searching on Google and you can find many suppliers claim to supply various kinds of fiber optic patch cords and fiber optic jumpers, and they all claim their products quality is good, is it really? Here we talk about how to identify the fiber optic patch cords quality.

1. Check the fiber optic patch cords insertion loss. For all kinds of fiber optic patch cords, insertion loss is the most important technical parameter; typical good quality fiber optic patch cord insertion loss should be 0.2dB or less. Insertion loss refers to when you connect the fiber optic patch cable to the equipment for linking, how much of the fiber optic light will be lost during this insertion process, certainly it is as low as better. Sometimes you may notice they are selling insertion loss tolerance 0.3dB fiber optic path cable, now we can know this 0.3dB ones are secondary quality. Huihong Fiber Inc is able to offer super quality fiber optic patch cables if needed - insertion loss is less than 0.1dB.

2. Check the fiber optic cable type, what kind of cables they are using? Riser rated? Plenum rated? OFNR or OFNP, if your supplier knows nothing about the standards or can not offer to you such information, we suggest you be careful. If you are going to sell to the fiber optic patch cords to the European Union, you should also check with them whether their products are RoHS compliant - to protect the health of the end user, this is required by law of E.U.

3. Check what kind of fiberglass they are using to make the fiber optic patch cords, the fiberglass is the key part in the cable to make data transmission; first class fiber is made by the U.S.A Company Corning. If you want a best quality you can choose fiber optic patch cords made with original Corning cable, or at least, the key part that is the fiberglass inside the cable, it is best to be made of American corning.

4. We have talked about the several key points to identify the fiber optic patch cables quality, but we know sometimes the products quality may still not as good as they claim to be, so last suggestion from Huihong Fiber Inc is, check the samples, the old Chinese saying is "Comparison make it clear what is good and what is bad". When you are doing the comparison, you can also see the good packing, the material used, etc.We all know how important the products looking and packing is. Huihong Fiber Inc offer free samples for commonly used fiber patch cords, you can require samples by writing to us.

Hope this article is helpful to you to get the best quality fiber optic patch cords, if you still have questions, please write to me via This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it  , I will be glad to hear from you.