EoW September 2007

english technology news

Staying bright – despite bending!

Draka Comteq, a global leader in optical fibre technology, cabling, connectivity solutions and network engineering services, has announced that its new bend and kink-resistant optical fibre, BendBrightXS, is receiving strong market acceptance across Europe. The company states that the product will set a new world standard in the use, installation and maintenance of fibre networks particularly for Fibre-to-the- Home (FTTH) and indoor applications. Both are rapidly emerging markets which demand fibre networks for a broad variety of situations, demanding ease of installation and maintenance. BendBrightXS has a very low macro- bending loss. This means the fibre can be bent down to the small radius of 15mm, while still offering a signal without any compromise on attenuation. It also resists ‘kinks’or micro bending. This makes a BendBrightXS network very friendly to fibre engineering errors such as overclamping the fibre and tie wrapping bundles of patch-cords. In the optical cladding process a special field-confining trench is inserted in the fibre. This trench keeps the light in the centre of the fibre while being mistreated by bends or kinks. Draka Comteq – Netherlands Experience counts PS Costruzioni Meccaniche has been designing and manufacturing wire and cable packaging plants for more than 35 years. Thanks to the company’s in-house departments of machine tools, electric and electronic, assembling and inspec- tion, design and development, spares and customers care departments, it can cater for all customer needs. PS’ automatic coil winding lines work as a slave to the extruder and an autonomous final station. By using a selector you can choose either the first or the second system. The automatic coiling lines are equipped with strappingmachines, thermo-shrinking tunnels, boxing machines, stackers and palletisers. PS Costruzioni Meccaniche Srl – Italy Fax : +39 0 39 6898769 Email : ps@pscostruzioni.com Website : www.pscostruzioni.com Fax : +31 40 2923 866 Email : info@draka.com Website : www.draka.com

BendBrightXS is Draka Comteq’s new bend and kink-resistant optical fibre ▲

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EuroWire – September 2007