Samsung Fiberoptics, develop and mass-produce high-strength broadband optical fiber that can bend freely first in the world!
An innovative glass optical fiber product that can be installed same as copper wire
Expected to lead the FTTH market with a variety of applications in the future(optical drop cable and patch cord, etc.)
Samsung Fiberoptics(Representative Geun-myeon Lee) succeeded in developing and mass-producing an Enhanced-Bend Intensive Fiber, hereafter E-BIF) with close-to-‘zero’ loss of transmitted signals in spite of bending, breaking or binding through a new differentiated technology unlike existing one for optical fiber production .
For the existing optical fiber, the loss of information is accompanied or even the signal may be disconnected if bent or broken over a certain level due to the property of glass, the main raw material. Because of this property, it has been hard to install optical fiber or has costed much in the sites where that should be bent or broken so it could not but be used only to a certain point.
However, since the Samsung Fiberoptics developed the E-BIF has reinforced bending feature greatly so it won’t have almost any data loss even if wound in a ball-point-pen-thick radius (5mm) dozens of times, it can provide convenience at the level of the existing copper cable in installing FTTH(Fiber To The Home: optical cable subscribers’ network). With this, true FTTH has come to be able to be realized.
In a product demonstration, Samsung Fiberoptics tested the optical cable using the E-BIF creating an extreme bending environment as the following image however it displayed excellent transmission property without any disconnection or distortion of video image transmission and superior performance with close-to-‘zero’ loss.
(Description) In spite of forming letters, SAMSUNG, winding them in a narrow radius, binding them together and breaking them at 90 degree with an optical cable using E-BIF, it shows ‘zero’ loss.
A person concerned with Samsung Fiberoptics said, “The E-BIF will be a solution to get rid of the technical difficulties arousing in FTTH network installation, a concern of communication businesses until now. Since being able to install freely networks through E-BIF whatever environment, they can greatly save time and costs for building optical infrastructure.”
So far, the world’s top optical fiber manufacturers have made efforts to develop fiber optics with this property, however the products developed until now have strengthened bending property though, still have weaknesses such as high loss, limited transmission range, difficult connection between optical fibers or weak durability, etc.
However, Samsung Fiberoptics solved all these problems through a new manufacture technology and developed and started to mass-produce the E-BIF with high strength broadband property for the first time in the world.
Thus, Samsung’s E-BIF having secured excellent quality feature and performance is forecasted to emerge as a key product in rapidly extending FTTH market.
Samsung Fiberoptics, Representative Director, Geun-myeon Lee said, “Currently, we draw an explosive attention from customer lines (communication businesses) in each country in the world such as requests for the sample of the E-BIF and inquiries of meeting, etc. Samsung Fiberoptics will satisfy customers’ needs continuing to develop new technologies and grow up as a specialized optical manufacturer that leads the market with premium products.”
※ Reference
1. BIF: Bend Insensitive Fiber
- Optical fiber with strengthened bending property, which doesn’t have more information loss than normal ones in spite of bending, breaking and winding.
2. E-BIF: Enhanced-Bend Insensitive Fiber
- Optical fiber with greatly enhanced bending property compared to the BIF, which can be installed at the same level of copper cable
3. FTTH(Fiber To The Home):
This refers to an optical cable subscriber network which is called ‘optical cable in home’ or ‘optical cable in residence,’ and a type of high-speed internet equipments. Unlike other high-speed internets that connect only to a certain point outside with optical cable and then with LAN cables or coaxial cables in home, it can provide 100 times faster and stable services compared to existing ADSL by connecting optical cable into home. Connecting optical cable into home has advantage in speed because of its excellent ability to deliver information and yet disadvantage in actual installation because of its difficulty in be