Corning’s solutions for harsh environments offer the ruggedized product portfolio necessary to endure the environmental and mechanical rigors found in oil and gas, mining, manufacturing, transportation, and energy/utilities infrastructures.
The Outside Plant network is evolving due to ever increasing bandwidth demands and the push to drive fiber deeper and deeper into the network. Because of these trends we are seeing rising demand for fiber counts greater than 1000 fibers in one cable and simultaneously the desire to pack more and more fiber into a smaller cross sectional footprint. These demands require installers and designers to leverage different cable designs to meet current network complexity.
Imagine being able to continu¬ously, accurately, and in real-time detect small acoustic, temperature, and/or strain changes anywhere along an optical cable in the outside plant environment. And depending on the inter-rogation unit or laser source used, you could have the ability to detect various environmental events at distances from ones to tens of kilometers away, with large numbers of distributed “virtual” sensors along the path. This is possible by using optical fiber as the intrinsic sensing medium.
Oil and Gas
defaultOption: Oil and GasIn oil and gas applications, fiber optics provide more bandwidth in a smaller footprint, saving space, weight, and installation time. The monitoring reliability for equipment performance, oil reserve levels, and environmental conditions make fiber optics an attractive option.
Manufacturing
: ManufacturingThe ability to expand when needed without interrupting the network is critical in manufacturing. Our high-density tip-to-tip solutions support moves, adds, and changes to communications systems efficiently.
Mining
: MiningReliable communication in harsh mining environments is critical to employee safety and for meeting government requirements. Whether your mine is surface, subsurface, mineral, or metal, we have a variety of products that are crush, shock, and temperature resistant.
Transportation
: TransportationRailways, subways, highways, airways, and waterways all benefit from increased bandwidth, decreased footprints, and faster moves, adds, and changes which require less contractor field time. Our products improve safety by better enabling video surveillance and traffic monitoring equipment and by providing real-time data control.
Energy and Utilities
: Energy and UtilitiesFiber optics is playing a large role in the race to expand alternative energy sources. Wind and solar farms recognize the insulation protection fiber offers from high-voltage shocks and the advantages of long haul versus copper, and our products are ideal for this application.
Product Highlights
To ensure our products are suitable for the extreme conditions and rigorous standards found in industrial applications, all of our low-smoke, zero-halogen™ (LSZH™) cables are independently tested to meet or exceed the requirements for tray-rated copper cabling with reliable and rugged performance.
To ensure our products are suitable for the extreme conditions and rigorous standards found in industrial applications, all of our low-smoke, zero-halogen™ (LSZH™) cables are independently tested to meet or exceed the requirements for tray-rated copper cabling with reliable and rugged performance.
Corning’s tray-rated cables provide advantages that not all cabling media can provide.
Our LSZH tray-rated cables are noise free, so no electronic noise can interfere with or disrupt data transmission. Additionally, customers are able to avoid the grounding requirements necessary with copper systems.
The glass in our optical cables is non-conductive, and our cables offer crush and impact resistance without the use of conductive armoring that requires grounding.
Corning’s tray-rated cables provide advantages that not all cabling media can provide.
Our LSZH tray-rated cables are noise free, so no electronic noise can interfere with or disrupt data transmission. Additionally, customers are able to avoid the grounding requirements necessary with copper systems.
The glass in our optical cables is non-conductive, and our cables offer crush and impact resistance without the use of conductive armoring that requires grounding.
Installation of optical cable has continued to become easier, and our LSZH tray-rated cables can be deployed in an industrial network up to 50 percent faster than legacy methods.
In addition, our cables enable much longer cable runs than in copper-based networks; for example, our cables are guaranteed to provide 1 Gigabit Ethernet throughput for at least 1000 meters, so no repeaters or amplifiers are needed.
Installation of optical cable has continued to become easier, and our LSZH tray-rated cables can be deployed in an industrial network up to 50 percent faster than legacy methods.
In addition, our cables enable much longer cable runs than in copper-based networks; for example, our cables are guaranteed to provide 1 Gigabit Ethernet throughput for at least 1000 meters, so no repeaters or amplifiers are needed.
Our tray-rated cables were specifically designed for the unique requirements of industrial applications.
This includes a higher fiber count per cable for greater flexibility, one product set for both indoor and outdoor applications to provide a single resource for an entire facility’s needs, multiple cable jacket types created to meet specific needs, and special print to designate a tray-rated product.
Our tray-rated cables were specifically designed for the unique requirements of industrial applications.
This includes a higher fiber count per cable for greater flexibility, one product set for both indoor and outdoor applications to provide a single resource for an entire facility’s needs, multiple cable jacket types created to meet specific needs, and special print to designate a tray-rated product.
