With winter weather coming, you face another serious challenge: freezing temperatures, snow, sleet and ice. The change in seasons means a shift in reasons why connectivity disruptions occur. Fiber optic cables are built to withstand most cold [...]
What Weather Can Do To Your Fiber Optic Cables - Part 2: Ice
By Marsha Hemmerich | December 1st, 2022 |Categories: fiber optics, fiber troubleshooting, fiber broadband, weather-related Internet issues, internet issues
What Weather Can Do To Your Fiber Optic Cables - Part 1: Wind & Water
By Marsha Hemmerich | October 25th, 2022 |Categories: fiber optics, fiber troubleshooting, fiber broadband, weather-related Internet issues, internet issues
A lot has happened in recent years that’s changed people’s reliance on communication. Before the pandemic there was pressure to get the power back on after a storm, today it’s more about ‘Why isn’t my phone working? Why isn’t my internet working?’ [...]
Fiber Optics - Troubleshooting Those Dirty Little Fibers
By Marsha Hemmerich | May 13th, 2021 |Categories: fiber, fiber optics, fiber troubleshooting
With its greater bandwidth capacity and ability to transmit signals over long distances with very little power loss, fiber has become the hands-down favorite for the future of
Broadband. Fiber’s resistance to magnetic interference makes [...]
New PON Technologies for Fiber Network Transformation
By Marsha Hemmerich | January 14th, 2020 |Categories: GPoN, FTTH, TWDM-PON, fiber optics, NG-PON2, FTTx, XGS-PON
Nowadays, over the top TV and video on demand streaming are the main drivers for additional bandwidth to your subscribers. And you can add to this the content and applications such as video surveillance, remote health care, video file transfers, [...]