- Steel Jacket Armors Plastic Fiber Optics
The knock on plastic fiber optic cables is that they aren't tough enough for industrial use. But the more rugged glass fiber cables are usually more expensive and, unlike plastic, can't be bent enough for tight applications without flaking fiber coatings, resulting in attenuation losses, according to Banner Engineering Product ......
- Robotic Fiber-Optic Cabling Installation Process Used
In Canadian Sewers.
Ca-Botics Fiber System International Ltd. has announced an agreement whereby Stream Intelligent Networks Corp. will utilize specialized robotic technology to install a high-speed fiber- optic network within a city's sewer system throughout Canada. A first in North America, this efficient and environmentally-friendly technology will effectively provide Canadian cities such as ......
- Fiber optic cables help special operators stay concealed.
TACOMA, WASH. -- Fiber optic cables that connect tactical radios to antennas up to 10 kilometers away or farther can be useful tools in covert operations, said an industry expert. The technology replaces shorter, heavier cables that can be more easily detected by enemy forces. "The enemy knows antennas mean ......
- Fiber-optic safety system replaces switches
Patent-pending combination of control-reliable, non-contacting photoelectric and fiber-optic technologies Designed to meet Category 4 requirements through one switch point per door Flexible and easy to install Pico-Guard fiber-optic safety system from Banner Engineering (Minneapolis, MN) directly replaces mechanical safety interlock switches to safeguard potentially dangerous machines. This combination of control-reliable, ......
- Gettin' Jiggy with Gig-E
Most who cleave to technological matters are occasionally guilty of making nouns out of verbs, like saying "transport" to describe things that move signals from one place to another. It goes like this, conversationally: "It's part of the transport," or "it's a transport issue." In cable, when people say "transport," ......
- Robot Lays Fiber-Optic Cable in Sewer
Systems.
Mississauga, Ontario -- Stream Intelligent Networks Corp. and the City of Mississauga have implemented robotic technology to install a high-speed fiber-optic network within the city's storm sewer system. Developed by Robotics Cabling Co. GmbH of Berlin and known as STAR (Sewage Telecommunication Access by Robot), the robot cabling system has ......
- Infineon Pushes Complete Line Card Strategy
One card with more ports at reduced cost was the message behind Infineon Technologies AG's introduction of two SONET/SDH framer chips to its portfolio of optical networking solutions today. The Tethys SONET/SDH multi-rate framer family of ICs provides, in one chip, functions for next-generation optical networking equipment in such applications ......