Broken Fiber Optic Cable

It is quite difficult to test a damaged cable making the choice of replacing your fiber optic wires the best alternative.

Broken fiber optic cable.

The failure of optical fiber cable will lead to a interruption for data transmission so to fix the damaged optical cable in time is an important task. This online session will guide you through. After going through the steps for repairing the fiber optic cable you may wonder whether you should chose the mechanical splicing or fusion splicing. It is better to have a broken cable that doesn t work at all than have one that works partly but not efficiently.

The glass fiber within the cable is fragile and although the cable has been designed to protect the fiber it can be damaged more easily than a copper wire. The basic approach to pulling fiber optic cable and copper cable is similar. While patch cables are fairly robust this cable is faulty when the door is closed but working when the door is open. The image below shows a fibre optic patch where the rack door has been pressing on the patch where the strain relief ends and rather obviously bend radius has been severely compromised.

While fiber optic wires are designed to be resistant damage still happens. The most common damage is a broken fiber which is difficult to detect.