Talk:Fiber-optic cable
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The table Connector Boot / Meaning / Comment in the section "Patch cords" should be moved to Wiki page "Optical fiber connector" 80.254.148.43 (talk) 16:19, 1 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Below is discussion from Color coding of optical fibers, now merged in to this article. The Photon 16:51, 1 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Ethernet color-coding for RJ45 connectors has nothing to do with fiber optic cabling. The strands have color-coded buffer tubing (or a buffer coating) in the following order: Blue, Orange, Green, Brown, Slate, White, Red, Black, Yellow, Violet, Rose, and Aqua. WorldOfMe (talk) 21:18, 19 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I'm adding a request for citation on
A critical concern in cabling is to protect the fiber from contamination by water, because its component hydrogen (hydronium) and hydroxyl ions can diffuse into the fiber, reducing the fiber's strength and increasing the optical attenuation.
In all my years of work installing fiber optic cabling I have never heard of such a thing. The only danger of water to optical fiber that I ever heard of was that of freezing water, where formation of ice crystals in the cable can break the fiber. In non-freezing environments (such as tropical installations), water blocking in the cable is therefore a non-issue.
I have not found any other citation on the internet for such a claim, except the echo chamber of other sites duplicating this WP article or text thereof. Alan (talk) 21:48, 17 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Doesn't water have an absorbtion peak at around 850nm? That's why manufacturers take so much trouble to keep water away from fibre. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.0.119.118 (talk) 14:52, 22 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Of course this is bull! You do not want water to come in contact with the fiber not because of some mysterious diffusion crap, but simply because glass-air critical angle is much larger than glass-water. As soon as water comes in contact with the glass, critical angle drops and the fiber starts to "leak" light. Dry the fiber, and it's fine (provided there is no contaminants left behind, all so common in water). Water has index of refraction of 1.33, air is 1.0. For more info, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_internal_reflection —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.55.199.131 (talk) 17:49, 23 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
This article has some technical information on how cables are constructed. However, it's completely missing a lot of other topics that ought to be in a general-intrest encyclopedia article. There is nothing on:
Ah, I see, we have both Optical fiber cable and Fiber-optic communication. I think they should be merged.--207.233.88.250 (talk) 16:53, 10 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
For typical 62.5/125 multimode patch cables, what is a minimum bend radius to avoid attenuation and cable damage?Sharp bends would cause permanent cable damage. Is there an in-between bend radius that would cause temporary attenuation, but avoid substantial permanent cable damage after straightening?If a typical patch cable is wrapped around a one-inch diameter cylinder, what is the typical amount of attenuation per wrap? Where can one find formulas, charts, tables and plots of such data?-96.237.15.180 (talk) 16:14, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Does anyone know of a page recording the history of optical fibre? Charlie Kao at STL labs in Harlow, Essex, UK, won (half of) the Nobel Prize for Physics for his trail blazing work in 1960-66 - should that not be here? Does anyone know what was done in the USA or elsewhere? Bell labs comes to mind, but I have no details.
AndyB (talk) 15:38, 27 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
As a practical matter, how are cable breaks repaired? It seems they can also be branched in T-shaped intersections. How does that work, especially for undersea cables? -- Beland (talk) 23:42, 10 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I'm mildly opposed to the proposed merge from All-dielectric self-supporting cable. The latter is a new article, and it's not clear to me that it is less viable. We have stub articles on other types of telecomm cable, which are linked from this article. There may be enough to say about them to merit keeping them as separate articles rather than trying to merge them all here.--Srleffler (talk) 03:44, 17 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
The table mentions Polyethylene as having poor UV resistance, but then the remark is "Good for outdoor applications". What?
50.68.13.81 (talk) 01:45, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The result of the move request was: moved (non-admin closure) ~SS49~ {talk} 16:57, 13 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Optical fiber cable → Fiber-optic cable – It's clearly the WP:COMMONNAME per Google ngrams. Rreagan007 (talk) 16:12, 6 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support as proposed Red Slash 02:14, 9 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]