OM5 fiber optic Ppatch cable

      Definition of OM5 fiber optic patch cord: OM5 fiber optic patch cord is a new standard for fiber optic patch cords defined by TIA and IEC, with a fiber diameter of 50/125um, the fiber optic pre-fabricated rod production process has been optimized to be able to be used for higher bandwidth applications, and at the same time, it can also be fully backward compatible with the traditional OM3 and OM4 multimode fiber optic patch cords. In February 2017, the TIA stipulated that the identifying color of OM5 fiber optic patch cords is Aqua green, OM3 and OM4 fiber optic patch cords can still be used with OM5 fiber optic patch cords, the only difference is the need to change the color of the sheath.
 

Figure 1 can identify the OM5 fiber through the color of the fiber

      Advantages of OM5 fiber optic patch cord: High scalability, OM5 fiber optic patch cord can combine short-wave wavelength division multiplexing (SWDM) and parallel transmission technology in the future, and it only needs 8 cores of wideband multimode fiber (WBMMF), which can support 200/400G Ethernet applications; low cost, OM5 fiber optic patch cord draws on the wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) technology of the single-mode fiber, extending the available wavelength range for network transmission. Low cost, OM5 fiber optic patch cord draws on single-mode fiber WDM technology to extend the range of wavelengths available for network transmission, and can support 4 wavelengths on 1 core of multimode fiber, reducing the number of fiber cores required by 1/4, which largely reduces the network cabling costs; Compatibility and interoperability: OM5 fiber optic patch cord can support legacy applications as OM4/OM3 fiber optic patch cords do, and it is fully compatible with OM4/OM3 fiber optic patch cords and has strong interoperability. It is fully compatible and interoperable with OM4/OM3 fiber optic patch cords;
      Differences between OM5 fiber optic patch cords and OM4/OM3 fiber optic patch cords: sheath color, in general, OM3 and OM4 fiber optic patch cords have aqua-blue sheaths, while OM5 fiber optic patch cords have aqua-green sheaths; wavelengths, OM5 fiber optic patch cords have wavelengths of 850/1300nm, and they can support at least four wavelengths, while the usual operating wavelengths of OM3 and OM4 are 850nm and 1310nm, and only support 1 wavelength at a time, in the same wavelength window, the transmission distance of this multimode fiber optic patch cord is not the same; Effective Mode Broadband (EMB), OM5 fiber optic patch cord in the Effective Mode Broadband (EMB) on a higher breakthrough, it will be the 850nm wavelength on the Effective Mode Broadband (EMB) increased to 6000MHZ.KM, in the KM at 850nm wavelength and 8000MHZ.KM at 880nm wavelength, which is 4 times higher than the effective mode bandwidth of traditional OM3 and OM4 multimode fiber;
      OM5 fiber optic patch cords are suitable for those optical modules: OM5 fiber optic patch cords can be used for QSFP-40G-SR4, QSFP-40G-BIDI-SR-MM850, QSFP-40G-eSR4, QSFP- 100G-SR4, CXP-100G-SR10 and other modules connection.
      Moduletek Limited can provide customers with OM5 fiber based patch cord products.
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