OFS announced enhancements to attenuation, dispersion slope and geometry ots its full spectrum zero water peak, AllWave fiber. OFS is now specifying maximum loss across the 1400 nm band to be less than 0.03 dB/km relative to the AllWave fiber benchmark 1383 nm loss of 0.31 dB/km. The company said it maintains a leadership position in attenuation at 1383 nm by specifying a maximum of 0.31 db/km, 11% better than major competition. The maximum values for attenuation at 1550 and 1625 nm for AllWave fiber are also improved. In an effort to lower network cost, OFS has lowered dispersion slope for AllWave fiber to 0.089 ps/nm2-km.
Improved loss performance and lower dispersion slope enables the Fiber-to-the-Premise (FTTP) service providers to increase reach by the use of low cost transmitters, improve system margins and increase network planning flexibility.
The splicing performance of AllWave fiber has also been significantly improvedhttp://www.ofsoptics.com
