Tips about choosing fiber optic cable
Fiber optic cable has become a standard component in most contemporary cable infrastructures. As we know, selecting the perfect fiber optic cable is quit important for any equipment. The cable is to protect the fibers during its stallation and the service lifetime. Many sorts of cable are accessible. Your Option will influence the degree of dietary fiber guardion, ease of Set up, splicing or termination, and, most vitally, Price.
But do you know what you need to noticed when choose fiber optic cable for use? Except check out the fibers and Optical fiber kinds, you also need according to the use of optical fiber cable to choose the fiber optic cable outer sheath. Here, the following tips show us how to select optical cable:
1. You’d better choose Armored Cable when use cable directly buried outdoor. And choose black plastic outer sheath cable with two roots and more than two root.
2. Pay attention to the characters of flame retardant, poison and smoke when use cable within the building. Generally, use flame retardant and smoke type cable in the pipeline. And choose flame retardant, smokeless and non-toxic type in exposed environment.
3. Choosing distribution cables in the apartment building vertical wiring. Breakout cables are used to Level wiring type.
4. The best choice to choose multimode optical cable when the transmission distance is less than 2 km. In the other sides, use single-mode optical cable when the transmission is more than 2 km.
The above tips are only according to it application. In fact, we should think of the price and quality. Flexible is needed. Wiring environment is complicated and various kinds of questions are might be happened in anytime. So we need according to the wiring standards implementation strictly in planning and construction, and flexible to analysis problems. We believe you can figure this out perfectly. And you can turn to fiber optic manufactures to choose other fiber optic equipments.