Expanding fiber networks in many companies' futures

PLDT plans to further its fiber optic network even more by the end of 2013, intending to spend an additional $29 billion PHP. The group has already added over 21,000 kilometers of fiber optic cables this year. The continued efforts at the end of 2013 are focused on increasing fiber-to-the-home installation and better support the firm's subsidiary - Smart Communications - at its LTE base stations.

Government benefits from fiber installation
The local leadership in Monticello, Ill., is looking forward to enhanced support from the fiber optic network currently being installed across the city. According to The News-Gazette, the project is expected to be finished Jan. 1, 2014. The cost of the installation was split across the Piatt County board, the city, local school districts and the Allerton Public Library district.

The installation will bring high-speed internet to more areas of the city, as well as boost the broadband support for the schools, libraries and other public works in the area.

Implementing fiber optic networks is about more than installing cable. Organizations have to optimize their infrastructure with high-quality media converters, such as fiber to copper. This will minimize latency between systems and help optimize fiber-to-the-home initiatives to the benefit of all involved.

Perle has an extensive range of Managed and Unmanaged Fiber Media Converters to extended copper-based Ethernet equipment over a fiber optic link, multimode to multimode and multimode to single mode fiber up to 160km.