Fibre optic cable assemblies are available as variants assembled at one or both ends. This is glass fibre (GOF) cable that has been assembled in the factory with various GOF connectors specifically designed for your application. The fibre optic patch cables or, assembled at one end, the fibre optic pigtails from our HITRONIC® glass fibre series make problem-free installation possible at any time for industrial, telecommunication and structured building cabling. A plug & play solution from LAPP.
When to use single-mode or multi-mode?
As in the increasing number of vehicles on the motorway, it's the same for fibre core that many light modes increasingly impede the flow of traffic. As bandwidth increases, the signal attenuation and the signal run time delay also increase.
The consequence of this is that considerably lower bandwidths and shorter distances can be attained than in single-mode fibre optic cables in which only one light mode is transmitted in the core. For longer distances, amplifiers or signal processors are required in the case of multi-mode fibre optic assemblies.
Depending on the index profile, multi-mode fibre optic patch cables are therefore used more frequently in office and structured building cabling applications, e.g. on patch fields, as well as for connecting switches, routers or other network devices. For long distances and high speed requirements, on the other hand, you should rather consider single-mode fibre optic cables. But always keep in mind: single-mode and multi-mode cables are generally not compatible with one another.
What are the fibre optic connectors for fibre optic patch cords?
Fibre optic patch cables or fibre optic cable assemblies, which also include fibre optic pigtails, are available with all common fibre optic connectors such as LC, SC and often also ST connectors for older installations. LC connectors belong to the small-form factor connector category (SFF connector) and are characterised by their particularly small design and higher packing density compared to other connectors.