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Excel’s Enbeam blown fibre
Copper and optical fibre cabling infrastructure provider Excel’s Enbeam new blown fibre solution includes a range of microducts from single to multiway in designs suitable for either internal or external applications, complemented with Enhanced Fibre Performance Units (EPFU) of 4 through to 12 fibre in both single and multimode. Systems installed by authorised Excel partners will be able to include this
TIA-598-C. The fibre units are available in OM3, OM4 and OS2 compliant with G-652 & G.657.A1 bend insensitive specifications as standard. The internal Enbeam microducts will be offered in the distinctive Excel ice blue jacket colour, whilst the external ducts have black high-density polyethylene outer sheath with aluminium foil inserted between the jacket and microducts to provide moisture protection. Each of the designs have internal longitudinal ribbing and a permanent super- slick lining of Silicore™ to reduce friction during cable placement.
Enbeam Enhanced Performance Fibre Units (EPFU) are designed specifically for blown fibre applications and are optimised for installation within our range of blown fibre ducts. The fibres are contained within a soft acrylate layer, which cushions the fibres. This layer is coated
with a hard layer for strength and finally a low-friction coating to ensure low drag and maximise blowing distances within the ducts. The acrylate coatings are easy to remove to expose the 250-micron primary-coated fibres for quick splicing. The fibres are colour-coded according to
new systemwithin the standard Excel 25-year warranty programme.
Transition Networks’ PCIe 10G ethernet fibre NIC
Transition Networks PCIe 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fibre Network Interface Card (NIC) (N-TGE-SFP-02), is a PCIe 3.0 x8 bus card supporting faster transfer speeds of up to eight Giga Transfers per second (GTps) for servers or high- powered work stations. The NIC supports server virtualisation, a process that uses software to consolidate data centre servers into the cloud. It also improves efficiency and load balancing through teaming. Teaming balances web traffic across all installed NICs to increase bandwidth. The open SFP slots support single mode or multi-mode fibre, enabling a secure fibre network
connection to remote terminals at a greater distance and without the electrical interference from EMI inherent in transmission over copper cabling. Transition Networks also offers a wide range of compatible SFP modules for use with the new NIC. The solution is Trade Agreement Act (TAA) and National Defense Authorisation Act (NDAA) compliant. The NIC features two open SFP slots that can be used with 1000Base-X SFP or 10GBase-SR/ LR SFP+ modules. Each port supports 10 Gbps bandwidth capacity for up to 20 Gbps full-duplex to support high- end servers, data centre, server message block (SMB) and cloud computing applications. The NIC fully complies with IEEE 802.3ae and IEEE 802.3z standards.
The 10 Gigabit NIC also offers advanced features like VLAN support, link aggregation, smart load balancing and failover. It is ideal for high-speed data transfer applications supporting higher resolution surveillance images, streaming of video
and multimedia content, and large file transfers. It’s ability to provide secure transmission over fibre cabling also makes it a great addition to Transition Networks’ broad portfolio of network adapters for FTTD applications.
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