It’s 2010, which means it’s almost the future, which means pretty soon your speaker wire-stripping and Cat 5 cable-crimping skills will about as useful as knowing how to cobble a pair of shoes.

Staff Sergeant Brett Thomas, Task Force Atlas, 44th Expeditionary Signal Battalion, supervises two soldiers while splicing fiber optic cable to connect network equipment at the Area Hub Node in ...

Splicing. Splicing fiber-optic cable can be accomplished in two ways. The first is a mechanical splice where the two ends are prepared and then held in place facing each other within a special ...

Most of Lake Tahoe was without internet for over 12 hours this past Friday after a garbage truck severed a Charter Communications fiber-optic line near the Minden-Tahoe Airport. The incident also ...

I was a Telecomm Tech at Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in the late 1980s and back then people who could splice fiber cable got $2000 a splice. That would be $8000 just for this repair.

The FiberRunner, a 6X4 routing system provides effective routing, segregation and protection of fiber- optic cabling between and around distribution frames, terminal devices and splice enclosures. As ...

SPARTANBURG, S.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AFL, an industry-leading manufacturer of fiber optic cable, connectivity, accessories and equipment, today announced the launch of the Apex® X-1. As the most ...

This dome splice closure builds on FOSC’s legacy of innovation and protection for billions of fiber optic connections around the world, by offering a new, modular seal design that leverages ...

An optical fiber cable that has connectors installed on one or both ends. See "pigtail" and "patch cord" in this glossary. ... splice. A method for joining two optical fiber ends.