Typical Applications

Telecommunications
Singlemode optical fibres are now standard point to point cable links between telephone exchanges and sub stations, with a carrying capacity of thousands of simultaneous telephone calls.

LANs
Multimode fibre is commonly used as a backbone fibre for networks, to link buildings together. Copper is still the current favourite to the desktop, but with growing bandwidth requirements, fibre is rapidly being employed as a standard PC connection while cable TV is one of the main users of optical fibre.

Low power consumption and excellent distance carrying abilities enable a relatively inexpensive installation.

CCTV

Closed circuit television systems require security and reliability with no interface for the camera transmission, optical fibres provide the solution.