Back in the 90's part of my job called for terminating fiber optic cable into ST connectors. The process was to bake the connector, glue, and fiber in this little heater, then put it into a puck and ...

There are numerous types of plugs and sockets to connect optical fibers, using threaded, bayonet, push-pull and snap-lock connections. The first fiber-optic connector to be standardized was SMA, which ...

Several factors are driving the popularity of optical fiber cabling. Chief among those is the growth of high-tech applications that require the massive bandwidth fiber-optic cabling makes possible.