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News Release from: Huber+Suhner | Subject: LISA
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 17 December 2002
Optical distribution frame controls
fibre bends
LISA is a new optical distribution frame designed specifically to handle systems working at 1625nm in the X band.
LISA (leading interconnect systems approach) is a new optical distribution frame (ODF) from Huber+Suhner, designed from the outset to handle systems working at 1625nm in the X band The system includes a new high-density cassette that can house double the number of fibres and has been engineered to facilitate easy installation, saving time and reducing costs
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 24 Dec 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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While other existing ODFs can be modified to accommodate 1625nm systems, Huber+Suhner claims they are not rugged or reliable at this wavelength, causing system performance compromises.
Owen Williams, Sales and Marketing Manager at Huber+Suhner comments: "We have taken everything we have learned over the years and worked to improve every aspect of our new LISA ODF.
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We realise that ensuring top performance means that you take a systems level approach - and that is exactly the market that Huber+Suhner is developing with LISA".
He continues: "Many manufacturers of fibre products boast that their products are bend limiting, but few actually are.
When designing the LISA cassette we have maximised bend radius wherever possible to ensure repeatable fibre performance.
The LISA system is designed to optimise bend radius at all areas in the fibre network, where possible, by guiding the fibre around a bend limiting mandrel".
Each element of a fibre optic system has potential to degrade the signal, especially where fibres are spliced into a tray or cassette.
Normally such cassettes are located in an area of high fibre density such as an ODF, so optical signal performance needs to be high up in the design priority list.
Huber+Suhner claims that the LISA splice cassette is the most flexible fibre optic cassette on the market as well as the best for maximising continuous optical performance.
There has always been a conflict between high-density fibre products and effective cable management.
The LISA cassette is capable of housing 24 fibres, connectors and adapters in a space normally allocated for 12, so customers will see major cost as well as performance benefits.
This has been achieved by successfully integrating SFF (small form factor) technology into standard products.
Currently, LISA can include LX.5, LC and MU footprints.
Huber+Suhner's new LISA ODF systems will be especially useful for DWDM and OTDR test systems, as well as providing a huge degree of future-proofing for 3G systems being installed today.
As well as the new LISA ODFs, Huber+Suhner is also using SFF technology in a range of slimline wall-boxes and high capacity 19in equipment.
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