Corning SMF 28e Optical Fiber Introduction

Evolving Networks Now

SMF-28e fiber is the world's most widely demanded single-mode fiber. Corning SMF-28e fiber is advancing communications applications worldwide by evolving networks to a higher level of performance capability. Introduced in 2001, SMF-28e fiber is optimized for widespread deployment in metropolitan and access networks. It has also been installed and is dependably operating in a variety of networks through-out the world, proving its capability in diverse transmission applications.

Corning SMF-28e optical fiber is:

1. Corning's standard single-mode fiber offering, delivering optimized capability, network design flexibility and confidence in long-term performance
2. The world's most widely demanded full-spectrum fiber
3. In compliance with or exceeding the industry's most stringent requirements, including:
   • ITU-T G.652 (Categories A, B, C & D)
   • IEC Specifications 60793-2-50 Type B1.3
   • TIA/EIA 492-CAAB
   • Telcordia's GR-20
   • ISO 11801 OS2
4. The industry leader in comprehensive standard single-mode fiber specifications

Building on a Solid Foundation

Corning SMF-28 fiber, the long-standing industry benchmark for quality and performance, was the foundation for the development of SMF-28e fiber with enhanced product capability and specifications. SMF-28e fiber offers improved optical and environmental performance while providing the same reliability, splicing performance and easily strippable CPC coating that made SMF-28 fiber the preferred standard single-mode fiber of cables, operators and installers. As the enhanced version of Corning SMF-28 fiber, SMF-28e fiber is fully compatible and inter-operable with legacy standard single-mode networks.

Corning used its 30 years of optical fiber experience to evolve standard single-mode fiber to meet and exceed the highest industry standards. SMF-28e fiber conforms to the major optical fiber industry standards including ITU-T G.652 (Tables A,B,C & D), IEC 60793-2-50 (type B1.3) and TIA/EIA- 492CAAB fiber. Not only does SMF-28e fiber have low attenuation in the water-peak region, but the combination of optical, environmental, dimensional and mechanical specifications through-out the single-mode fiber transmission window ensure its consistent and trouble-free, long-term performance as a full-spectrum fiber.

Trusted Performance Today and in the Future

As Corning's premier standard single-mode fiber, SMF-28e fiber is one in a long line of optical innovations. While Corning Optical Fiber continues to push single-mode fiber to new levels and evolve its standard single-mode optical fiber offering by adding the performance advantage of NexCor technology to the trusted SMF-28e optical fiber. The result is Corning SMF-28e+ optical fiber, a full spectrum single-mode fiber that is fully backward compatible with legacy single- mode fibers and is the latest in a long line of fiber optic innovations from Corning. Corning SMF-28e+ optical fiber, an ITU-T G.652.D-compliant optical fiber, is expanding the capability and performance of the world's metropolitan and access networks that support all broadband applications, including CATV and fiber to the home (FTTH). Significant performance advantages compared to the industry's legacy single-mode fibers include:

• NexCor's MaxPower technology's 3 dB Stimulated Brillouin Scattering threshold improvement, enabling twice the optical launch power for better system reach and coverage
• Improved macrobend specifications, from 0.05 dB to 0.03 dB, for improved handling and ease of installation, critical considerations in today's access network designs
• Tighter zero dispersion wavelength ( λ 0 ) specification, specifically the λ 0 tolerance has been improved from a range of ± 10 nm to ± 7 nm, to enable lower cost transmitters and simplified network planning. As with all Corning fiber products, SMF-28e+ fiber complies with the industry's most stringent requirements, including:
  • ITU-T Recommendation G.652 (Tables A, B, C and D)
  • IEC Specifications 60793-2-50 Type B1.3
  • TIA/EIA 492-CAAB
  • Telcordia Generic Requirements GR-20-CORE
  • ISO 11801 OS2

Fiberstore Alternative Solution

SMF-28e+ fiber continues Corning's long history of optical innovation and outstanding product performance. Fiberstore is a fibre optic cable manufacturer have the ability to upgrade Corning SMF 28e+ standard single-mode fiber worldwide to a full-spectrum product that offers customers greater value today and in the future. SMF-28e+ fiber provided by Fiberstore, which meets the communications industry's most stringent requirements and exceeds them with enhanced product attributes offering customers precision fibers backed by the most comprehensive specifications in the fiber industry.