Fiber Optic Cable

A type of network cable that uses light to transmit data in a glass or plastic cable.

Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM)

Duplex fiber channel links require two fiber optic cable connections, one for a Transmit (Tx) and for a Receive (Rx) lane. These parallel lanes work at speeds of 10 or 25 Gbps to provide 40 or 100 Gbps of bandwidth. WDM is using one or two strands to provision multiple transmission channels.'

There are several types of WDM:

• Bidirectional-WDM
• Coarse-WDM
• Dense-WDM

Course and Dense WDM support multichannel 1G, 10G, and 40G Ethernet links.

Components

• Plastic/Glass Central Core
• Containment-Cladding-Layer
• Protection Layer(s)
• Plastic Sheath/Jacket

Connectors

• LC Connector
• ST-Connector
• SC-Connector
• MT-RJ Connector

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