The rise of encircled flux emphasizes fiber's growth

The news source explained that businesses cannot settle for that amount of variance in an era in which optical network components are so advanced that organizations are using component specifications to determine power loss budgets instead of depending solely on standards. This leads to a need for extremely precise testing methodologies and that 40 percent variance is too great to be dealt with. This is where encircled flux comes into play. Encircled flux capabilities provide a more precise point of reference for the modal power throughout the network, making it much easier to accurately measure power loss.

Cabling Installation & Maintenance magazine reported that encircled flux is becoming so prominent that it will likely soon be considered a mandatory specification for some standards-based tests.

Optical power budgets and media converters
Organizations must keep the diverse components of the network in mind when establishing their optical power loss budgets. This can present major problems in mixed media climates like campus networks that move data back and forth between copper and fiber cabling. Fiber to Ethernet media converters that limit optical power loss play a critical role in supporting effective performance and the growth of fiber testing emphasizes the rising need to incorporate low-loss components, like advanced media converters, into the network.

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.