Didn’t know that was the diameter of the paint. Seems like an odd thing to spec on a splitter as you always strip that off.
From: Adam Moffett Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2017 4:08 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] PLC Splitters A "bare fiber" pigtail has 250um acrylic coating. ------ Original Message ------ From: ch...@wbmfg.com To: af@afmug.com Sent: 8/10/2017 6:07:52 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] PLC Splitters That sounds strange to me. Is there such a thing as PON on multi mode fiber? From: Jason McKemie Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2017 3:37 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: [AFMUG] PLC Splitters I'm looking to possibly do a trial GPON deployment on a leg of my active network, it looks like the FS.com PLC Splitters are 250µm. However, singlemode fiber is usually spec'd at a cladding of 125µm. Are they just using a different measurement or some sort of oddly sized fiber? -Jason
