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“The nuclear industry has been developing
and improving reactor technology for
more than five decades. Because every
reactor design has a unique DBE profile,
General Cable’s integrated test program
was designed to prove that its cables could
withstand the worst possible environment
or outcome out of numerous possibilities.
Ultrol® 60+ low voltage safety-related class 1E 60-year-life cable
from General Cable
“With documented performance at higher
radiation and temperature levels, we are
reasonably assured that Ultrol 60+ low
voltage cables will continue to perform
their intended function under extreme
environments,” saidKoksal Tonyali, director,
product engineering and development,
specialty cables, General Cable North
America.
New fiber product
OFS has introduced AllWave®+ zero water
peak (ZWP) single-mode optical fiber, a
full spectrum fiber for FTTx, metro, and
backhaul networks.
AllWave+ fiber offers the same specifications
as OFS AllWave fiber, but has extra features
including 40 percent smaller bend radius,
50 percent lower bend loss, and 33 percent
improved polarization mode dispersion
(PMD), whilst maintaining a 9.2 micron
nominal mode field diameter to minimize
splice loss to existing single-mode fibers.
AllWave+ fiber is a combination ITU-T
G.652.D and G.657.A1 compliant fiber
designed to prevent network disruptions
from inadvertent fiber bending that can
occur in closures or terminals, and enables
smaller cable packaging to help ease
cable handlingand lower cable installation
costs.
"Service providers are deploying more
applications such as FTTx, FTTH, mobile
backhaul, and metro CWDM, operating
at longer bend-sensitive wavelengths
between 1,490 to 1,625 nm to meet
higher bandwidth demands and grow
revenues. As bending sensitivity increases,
AllWave+ fiber increases reliability by
helping to prevent bend-induced service
outages, and enabling faster, more
compact installations by helping to further
shrink micro-cables and enclosures,"
explained Peter Spehr, executive director
sales and marketing, EMEA cable and
connectivity, adding: "AllWave+ fiber
enables consistently low loss splices for our
customers when matched either to itself,
AllWave fiber, or other quality G.652.D
fibers. This helps eliminate splice remakes
in the field, and speeds network testing.”
Optical module reaches 150m
Panduit Corp’s Signature Core™ fiber
optic cabling system has enabled Cisco’s
40G BiDi optical modules to reach 150m, to
date the only multimode fiber that allows
Cisco to achieve this capability. Using the
Signature Core systemwith Cisco’s 40G BiDi