On one of my customer visits, I spoke with a new technician who was very excited to start his splicing career. Unfortunately, like many new employees and contractors, this tech learned some basic…
Scoping and cleaning fiber optic connections during test and turn-up are continually stressed to contractors...and for good reason. Many of us Application Engineers at Clearfield® deal with issues…
Congratulations! After all the planning and preparing, you are now ready to start pulling in your FieldShield Fiber from Clearfield. Maybe you are new to microfiber, maybe you are new to Clearfield…
In keeping with Clearfield’s “keep it simple” approach to fiber-fed deployments, features of the YOURx-Terminal, such as the interchangeable FieldShield® FlexCartridge® , allow it to be configured…
You only have one chance to do it right the first time. I am an evangelist for fiber jumper routing the right way. When I was a Central Office supervisor in downtown Minneapolis, proper jumper routing…
The importance of a well-designed communications cabling pathway cannot be overstated in today’s bandwidth-hungry environment. Lost connections and subsequent downtime are simply not tolerated.…
