Today's global enterprises need to provide faster, safer and larger capacity communication systems for their network operations. Optical fiber technology is expected to play an important role in this growth. A research and market study determined that by 2025, the composite annual growth rate of optical fiber market may reach 8.5%, which means more industries will seek the solution provided by the technology. From the health care system to the marine environment, fiber optic cables have proved to be an important part of the industrial infrastructure.
Fiber optic cable assemblies also play an increasingly important role in residential applications. Homeowners now want high-speed Internet access to become part of their daily life. The leaders of the telecommunications and data industry are using fiber technology as a clean and reliable way to provide expected services. In the next five years and beyond, the contractor hopes to use fiber optic cables in various projects to improve connection.
Development of optical fiber technology
The optical fiber cable is made up of one or more thin glass wires, protected by a flexible transparent sheath. Instead of using electrical pulses to convey information, the technology uses optical pulses. Therefore, it provides technically unlimited performance capability.
Capacity may exceed your imagination: the National Geographic report says the latest trans the Atlantic cable can transmit 100 hours of digital video or 30 million phone calls from one side of the ocean to the other side in one second.
Fiber optic cable assemblies have many applications and their uses are growing. This technology is the backbone of private networks and public networks for military networks, medical imaging and laser practice as well as cable and Internet.
One of the reasons why fiber optic cables are so widely used is that they are very safe. The technology does not contain electromagnetic fields, so data can not be intercepted, slowed down or confused with other signals.
Compared with other cable options in the market, the safety, speed and security of optical fiber really need higher cost. But its price in the market is still competitive compared to the rising cost of copper used in other cable technologies. In addition, metal wiring is naturally thicker, which reduces load capacity and makes installation difficult in a more challenging environment. Optical fiber provides the clarity and security that modern owners and business leaders expect in infrastructure projects.
Optical fiber in new project
Forbes recently reported that city and city in all parts of the world began to use fiber optic cable to meet their communication needs. For example, San Francisco is building a city wide optical fiber network as a way of seeing the Internet as a public utility.
At the same time, the Pacific optical cable network plans to lay 8000 miles of optical fiber cable from Losangeles to Hongkong on the seabed. To meet the growing demand for bandwidth in the popularity of social media and Google, this huge project will generate a two-way capacity of 144 TB.
In addition, with the help of fiber optic cable, the expansion of new 5G wireless technology is possible. According to wired magazine, telecom leaders are relying on millions of miles of new cables to make global 5G devices better interconnected and networked. With the decline in mobile phone prices in developing countries such as China, India and Brazil, this connection has never been so important to many people.
New trends in speed and efficiency
With the increasing demand for higher speed and efficiency, optical fiber technology itself is also developing. New devices called optocouplers and optical switches support new communication trends known as AON or all-optical networks. The technology allows data transmission without any electrical processing, thus enabling further transmission distance.
Another improvement of fiber optic cable is called WDM or wavelength division multiplexing. This is a process of increasing the bandwidth capacity by allowing different carriers to transmit optical signals.
Then it is OAM or orbital angular momentum. This new technology forces the wave of light to spiral, thereby enhancing their ability to transmit information in a highly scalable manner. Technology Networks experts even speculate that this transmission method can increase transmission speed by 100 times in the next few years.
Another improvement in optical fiber technology is called ROF or optical fiber radio. The system allows radio frequencies to be transmitted by fibers which are not affected by electromagnetic interference. This has potential for development in both aviation and public sectors.
