Here are 5 reasons why we choose OM5 fiber:
1. OM5 fiber specifications are already published by the Telecommunications Industry Association as TIA-492AAAE, and are in late-stage ballot within the IEC to be published as IEC 60793-2-10 edition 6.
2. OM5 and TIA-492AAAE specifications will be recognized in the upcoming ISO/IEC 11801 Edition 3 and the American National Standards Institute cabling standard ANSI/TIA-568.3-D.
3. OM5 cabling supports all legacy applications at least as well as OM4, and is fully compatible and interoperable with OM3 and OM4 cabling.
4. OM5 is designed to support at least four low-cost wavelengths in the 850-950 nm range, enabling optimal support of emerging Shortwave Wavelength Division Multiplexing (SWDM) applications that reduce parallel fiber count by at least a factor of four to allow continued use of just two fibers (rather than eight) for transmitting 40 Gb/s and 100 Gb/s and reduced fiber counts for higher speeds.
5. OM5 is sold worldwide and the pre-terminated patch cables provided by HTF have been installed in a variety of network environments, including campuses, buildings, and data centers.
OM5 provides a significant advantage over legacy OM3 and OM4 fibers to support SWDM applications. In the future, SWDM technology could be leveraged to enable 200, 400 and 800 Gb/s Ethernet traffic on multimode fiber as well.
