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Optical fiber sensor technology has been used in oil and gas companies since 1990 for monitoring temperature and pressure in order to improve safety and raise production. Also, for many years companies have been collecting big quantities of data in order to know what lies behind the surface and how to bring it out.

A team of researchers from the University of Illinois have unlocked fiber optics’ potential as they managed to transmit data at 57 Gbps at room temperature with no errors, setting a new record for fiber optic transmission.

Small Form Factor (SFF) connectors were created as a solution. SFF connectors help reducing deployment costs, saving floor space for cables and equipment in fiber optic installations because they make it possible to put several fiber connections in the same space. In the late 90’s different types of SFF connectors were developed, but just two of them succeeded until the current days: MT-RJ and LC.

There is a worrying trend in the cable industry that is impairing the final consumer: counterfeit cables. Companies are doing this shady deal by selling under brand cables labeled as a genuine products, but without the quality controls and even without the appropriate metal inside them.

Single mode and Multimode are the two types of optical fiber that exist, but they have several categories. Multimode fiber can be OM1, OM2, OM3 and OM4 and Single mode is categorized as OS1 and OS2 by the ITU-T G.652A/B/C/D and ITU-T G.652C/D standards, respectively.

There are different kinds of optical fiber cables, single mode and multimode. There also are four types of multimode fiber identified by the “OM”  designation described by the ISO/IEC 11801 and they are: OM1, OM2, OM3 and OM4.

On January 25^th, 2016, the Telecommunication Industry Association TR-42 Engineering Committee and the most important outcome from that meeting is that Category 8 cable that has been in development since 2012 under the TR 42.7 subcommittee, in charge of copper cable systems, is close to its publication.

A new way to solve the “last mile problem” and provide real fiber connections to households was developed by scientists and researchers from the UCL Optical Networks Group and UNLOC program in London as they designed a simplified optical receiver that could be mass-produced cheaply.