Fiber optic tool kits commonly available in the market

Fiber optics has emerged as the most important tool for high end communication. The fact that you can transfer huge amount of data through these optical cables and that too at far distant places, makes it one of the most important breakthroughs technology has brought forward for people.
The most important thing that you need to keep in your mind is that these optical cables need proper maintenance and a slight fault in these could lead to huge amount of data loss. To make the task of maintenance and testing easy, a wide range of testing kits are available in the market. Let us have look at the most popular ones –

1. Fusion Splicing tool kit – fusion splicing is quite an intricate task and requires complex tools. This is what makes such fiber optic tool kits so expensive. The most important part of these kits is high precision fiber cleavers, the costliest part of the whole gear. Apart from these cleavers, these kits also contain jacket strippers (to remove the outer jacket from the cables), fusion splice protection sleeves, stripper (to get rid of the fiber coating), disposal units and other miscellaneous items such as wipes and alcohol, to name a few.
2. Optic Cleaning Tool kit – these are the simplest ones and do not contain any technical tools. These focus more on the cleaning aspect more than the maintenance. Some of the common components that are a part of such cleaning kits are canned air, lint free Kim wipes, alcohol wipes, foam swabs (2.5mm for FC,ST,SC connectors and 1.25mm for LC and MU connectors) and fiber connector reel cleaners, to name some.
3. Quick Termination Connector tool kit – the fact that each connector is designed separately as the manufacturers need; you cannot find any universal connector tool kit. However, common brands that manufacture fiber optic connector testing kits include 3M Hot Melt Connectors, Corning Unicam Connectors, Tyco/AMP Light Crimp plus connectors, all having variable testing tools in them.

Apart from these, there are fiber optic testing tool kits and traditional epoxy and polish connector termination tool kit as well, used for the task of maintenance and testing of fiber optic connections. Looking at the importance of cleaning in maintaining a good connection and efficient data transfer it becomes critical to have a tool kit by your side, if you are using fiber optic technology for domestic as well as commercial purposes. This article gives you a good idea about all the latest kits available in the market.
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