Fiber technology has quietly enabled much of what we take for granted today, such as the internet, high-speed video and even mobile networks—all of which rely heavily on fiber backbones to ensure high quality of service. Fiber technology enables significantly lower cost, higher capacity bandwidth at much greater distances than other media such as coaxial, microwave and satellite.

This whitepaper is a fact file on all you need to know about optical fiber including:

• Singlemode vs multimode fiber and the similarities and differences
• The evolution and short history of multimode fiber
• The technology behind laser-optimized fibers: differential mode delay (DMD)
• Installation and training for multimode fiber