Another issue, says Moore, is that terminating a fiber optic cable on aircraft is an expensive proposition. “You need to fly a special technician out if it’s an aircraft-on-ground (AOG) situation.”
A supplier of both copper wires and fiber optic cables, Gore says it is tackling the challenges posed by fiber on a number of fronts.
In order to ensure its fiber optic cables can resist crushing, kinking and abrasion while maintaining signal integrity before and after installation, Gore uses a unique dual buffering system that sees a layer of its signature stretched PTFE wrapped around the glass core. This allows Gore to have “basically a semi loose tight construction”, which might sound like an oxymoron, but is actually what people are labeling it in the industry. “It’s resistant to actually kinking or to damaging, and so the fiber is being protected. It’s not violating its bend radius; it’s not seeing any microbends or kinking or anything like that,” notes Moore.
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Gore also engages in rigorous testing. “One example is we have done a cable flex endurance test, which is a tick tock test which is one of the hardest tests you can perform on a cable in general let alone a fiber optic cable. And essentially what you are doing is you are hanging a weight on the fiber optic cable and you are basically going into this motion that is completely 180 degrees back and forth,” explains Moore. “The standard test for that is about .4kg and for a 62.5-micron [fiber optic cable] you have to hit I think it’s about 25,000 cycles. For a ruggedized cable, I think you would have to hit about 100,000 cycles. We have tested [our cable] with a kilogram and we’ve gotten over a 150,000 cycles on our cable.
So that’s the kind of level of mechanical robustness and integrity that we are trying to share with people and saying that ‘alright you are doing copper to fiber and we really want to minimize your risk and minimize your fears on making that switch because it is inevitable.'”
A supplier of both copper wires and fiber optic cables, Gore says it is tackling the challenges posed by fiber on a number of fronts.
In order to ensure its fiber optic cables can resist crushing, kinking and abrasion while maintaining signal integrity before and after installation, Gore uses a unique dual buffering system that sees a layer of its signature stretched PTFE wrapped around the glass core. This allows Gore to have “basically a semi loose tight construction”, which might sound like an oxymoron, but is actually what people are labeling it in the industry. “It’s resistant to actually kinking or to damaging, and so the fiber is being protected. It’s not violating its bend radius; it’s not seeing any microbends or kinking or anything like that,” notes Moore.
fiber optic technician salary
Rotation
Gore also engages in rigorous testing. “One example is we have done a cable flex endurance test, which is a tick tock test which is one of the hardest tests you can perform on a cable in general let alone a fiber optic cable. And essentially what you are doing is you are hanging a weight on the fiber optic cable and you are basically going into this motion that is completely 180 degrees back and forth,” explains Moore. “The standard test for that is about .4kg and for a 62.5-micron [fiber optic cable] you have to hit I think it’s about 25,000 cycles. For a ruggedized cable, I think you would have to hit about 100,000 cycles. We have tested [our cable] with a kilogram and we’ve gotten over a 150,000 cycles on our cable.
So that’s the kind of level of mechanical robustness and integrity that we are trying to share with people and saying that ‘alright you are doing copper to fiber and we really want to minimize your risk and minimize your fears on making that switch because it is inevitable.'”
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