With faster technology emerging almost by the day, it stands to reason that cabling infrastructures require a certain degree of backbone bandwidth on the LAN, to ensure minimal congestion and bottlenecks.

This is where fibre optical backbone becomes invaluable. A fibre backbone is a must when interconnecting two or more telecommunications room or cabinets, offering a future proofed 100Base-FX, 1000Base-SX, 10GB base-SX up to 40GB Base-SX with known and trusted names such as Nexans , AMP and Pinnacle. With a typical desktop PC using 100Mbps connections, it stands to reason that it is necessary to increase the backbone to cope with this traffic.

As well as providing a high-speed link between telecommunications rooms, it is also a cost effective alternative to a wireless link between two buildings on the same site providing certain criteria is met.

There are various grades and core counts of fibre optical cable as below:

• 2, 4, 8, 12, 16 and 24core are the most common, however almost any core count can be achieved.
• Standard OM2 MM fibre, suitable for 100Base-FX transmissions over shorter distances (220M)
• OM3 MM fibre, suitable for 100Base-FX transmissions over longer distances (2KM) and 1000Base-SX over shorter distances (550M).
• GIGALite III fibre, suitable for 1000Base-SX transmissions over longer distances (2KM).

All the above utilise LED transmissions, which makes them cheaper to use for the hardware, as opposed to Single Mode, which utilises laser transmissions.

As a member of the Fibre Optic Industry Association (FIA) Norcomm UK is bound by their codes of conduct ensuring that our clients receive only the highest possible services.