User Documentation

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Planning
Fibre-optic basics
a) Fibre-optic bres
POF/HCS Glass
Costs(devices,cables,
connectionsystem)
low high
Range of coverage POF: up to 50 m
HCS: up to 200 m
severalkilometres
Data rates up to 100 Mbit/s >10Gbit/s
Usage, handling and
packaging
relativelystraightforward complex
Fibres No additional
connector
One additional
connector
Two additional
connector
Plastic Optical
Fibre(POF)
50 m 43.5 m 37 m
Plastic Cladded
Fibre(PCF)
100 m 100 m 100 m
Multimode
glassbre
2,000 m 2,000 m 2,000 m
Singlemode
glassbre
14,000 m 14,000 m 14,000 m
b) Fibre categories
Fibres Wavelength
[nm]
Attenuation
[dB/km]
Bandwidth/length
product [MHz*km]
Coefcient of chromatic
dispersion
[ps/nm*km]
Multimode
OM1
850 3.5 200
1,300 1.5 500
Multimode
OM2
850 3.5 500
1,300 1.5 500
Multimode
OM3
850 3.5 1,500
1,300 1.5 500
Singlemode
OS1
1,310 1.0 3.5
1,550 1.0 18