Optical fibers are the bundles of thin glass or flexible plastic threads that use light signals, often in the form of laser beams, to transmit data from source location to the destination location. The concept behind using light signals is that they travel at enormous speed, thus results in fast communications. These thin strings covered in a material in order to allow light signals to move through the strands devoid of escaping out the sides.

Because of the below mentioned properties, this transmission media has become backbone of almost every organization, institute, and other groups that rely on communication media:
  • Speed: Optical fibers functions at very high speeds as compare to electric signals
  • High bandwidth: Large capacity to carry data
  • No signal refreshing: or signal regeneration is needed to speed up signals
  • Greater resistant: environmental factors and electromagnetic noise such as motors, or effects from neighbouring cables.
To preserve the aforementioned factors of fiber cables it is necessary to run the cleaning and inspection measures timely. With the passage of time, the quality of light signals gets decreased due to various forms of contaminations accumulated on the ferrule.

Ferrule is a plastic, ceramic, or stainless steel component of the optical fiber connector that holds the fiber thread and aligns it to the plug. The opening of the ferrule is so tiny that it needs magnifying glass to see it. Imagine the effects of dust particles, once entered in this part. Therefore, regular maintenance cleaning measures must be implemented in order to protect your network from being destroyed.

In our routine activities, we face micro structures like dust that gives our skin an ugly appearance. We need skin toner and cleaner to remove these tiny particles. Similarly, the contaminations like dust, oil from hands, hairs etc., that get accumulated on the connector’s end-face are need to be cleaned before its functioning get hampered by them.

There is wide range of fiber ferrule cleaners available at Aefos, like air sprays, lint-free alcoholic wipes, cleaning solvents, dry wipes, available in the market. Loose dust particles that deposited on the connectors’ end-face are blown out with the help of air sprays or air compressors. Air compressors have a thin-long nozzle that fits over the small opening of the end-face. These air containers comprise of moisture free air and inert gas that blows the small particles when the button on the top of the compressor is pressed.

Dry and wet wipes are used to individually or with other cleaning measures to wipe out the dust or residuals of cleaning. Wet wipes or lint-free alcoholic wipes are used to support wet cleaning of ferrules. Cleaning solvers like alcohol is used to remove rigid accumulations like oils from the cable surface.

Fiber ferrule cleaners provide high quality data transmissions without causing data or signal loss.



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