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EuroWire – September 2007 52
english technology news
Staying bright –
despite bending!
Draka Comteq, a global leader in optical
fibre technology, cabling, connectivity
solutions and network engineering
services, has announced that its new
bend and kink-resistant optical fibre,
BendBrightXS, is receiving strong market
acceptance across Europe.
The company states that the product
will set a new world standard in the use,
installation and maintenance of fibre
networks particularly for Fibre-to-the-
Home (FTTH) and indoor applications.
Both are rapidly emerging markets
which demand fibre networks for a broad
variety of situations, demanding ease of
installation and maintenance.
BendBrightXS has a very low macro-
bending loss. This means the fibre can be
bent down to the small radius of 15mm,
while still offering a signal without any
compromise on attenuation. It also
resists ‘kinks’or micro bending. This makes
a BendBrightXS network very friendly
to fibre engineering errors such as
overclamping the fibre and tie wrapping
bundles of patch-cords.
In the optical cladding process a special
field-confining trench is inserted in the
fibre. This trench keeps the light in the
centre of the fibre while being mistreated
by bends or kinks.
Draka Comteq – Netherlands
Fax: +31 40 2923 866
Email:
Website:
BendBrightXS is Draka Comteq’s new bend and kink-resistant optical fibre ▲
Experience counts
PS Costruzioni Meccaniche has been
designing and manufacturing wire and
cable packaging plants for more than
35 years.
Thanks to the company’s in-house
departments of machine tools, electric
and electronic, assembling and inspec-
tion, design and development, spares and
customers care departments, it can cater
for all customer needs.
PS’ automatic coil winding lines work as a
slave to the extruder and an autonomous
final station. By using a selector you can
choose either the first or the second system.
The automatic coiling lines are equipped
with strappingmachines, thermo-shrinking
tunnels, boxing machines, stackers and
palletisers.
PS Costruzioni Meccaniche Srl – Italy
Fax: +39 0 39 6898769
Email:
Website: