The kicker is the fiber is all single-mode as that is primarily what the telco deals with. It's all donated so we can't really complain. The issue is the camp isn't _that_ large and the distances ...

But not all fiber is created equal. The ongoing debate between single-mode fiber (SMF) and multimode fiber (MMF) in data centers isn't just an academic exercise. It's a real-world decision with ...

The only glass involved is on the outside structure of the cable itself. “With single-mode fiber, you're using glass to reflect glass and there are problems with that,” says Andrew Lord, optics and ...

These have a foot long single mode piece on each TX end of the fiber, with a mysterious connector that joins the single mode section to the multimode for the rest of the run. This extends the ...