Draka bend-insensitive technology is now a standard for all multimode fiber cabling solutions

Draka Communications announced that its entire current range of UC-branded fiber cabling solutions with OM3 and OM4 multimode technology will be upgraded from this month to bend-insensitive fiber technology, giving greater value to customers for the same price. For cable shipments beginning April onwards, MaxCap-BB-OM3/4 technology will be included as a standard feature of the cabling solution, as well as bend-friendly replacements for OM2 assembly and distribution cables.







“Thanks to Draka’s strong fiber technology production base, today we are taking a leadership position to raise the standard of all LAN and data center cabling. Bend-insensitive technology represents a huge boost in functionality and solution quality for IT managers”, says Carsten Fehr, EMEA Marketing Manager, Draka Communications. “Our decision creates tangible value for end users as well as installers looking to future-proof cabling infrastructures.”







“This is effectively a free bend-insensitive upgrade for our customers. It will eventually result in end-users enjoying high reliability data centers, lower downtime and maintenance and savings in racks and housings thanks to higher cabling density”.







Bend-insensitive fiber technology provides recognised, measurable benefits in LAN and data center cabling, such as increased spare system margin that improves 10G and higher network reliability. It also stimulates the possibility of new, reduced-size cable designs that are lighter in weight improve cooling efficiency, and offer reduced environmental footprints – supporting the evolution to greener data centers.







Fiber deployment is growing exponentially in data infrastructures. With storage, server and edge devices moving in the direction of 10Gb/s speeds and beyond, a core network now needs to support much higher data traffic speeds. This has lead to the development of 40GbE and 100GbE standards, designed to address short reach transmission, through parallel transmission over multimode optical fibre cabling, with significant cost advantages over LAN WDM when compared with the use of single-mode optical fiber.







In parallel to the continued evolution of OM4 multimode fiber standards, bend-insensitive fibres have been developed to enable more compact cable cabinets – reducing ownership costs. In addition, smaller diameter, flexible cables increase cabling density, alleviating the pressure that massive optical cabling puts on installation practices by eliminating bending as a critical factor for data signal loss.