The use of communicating via light undoubtedly goes back many centuries. The Chinese and Native Americans were the first to use smoke signals for long distance communications, a type of optical ...

“Fusion splicing is a long-established and well-proven technique for the provision of low insertion loss and high return loss joints in fibre optic cable,” the FIA says. “Unfortunately, unrealistic ...

The shift from fusion splicing and blown fibre towards connectorised fibre has previously being credited with speeding up the Openreach FTTP roll-out for the final 100 to 200 metres to individual ...