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PTB Product News				March 9, 1999
Corning Introduces New Laser-Optimized Multimode Optical Fiber

CORNING, NY -- Corning Incorporated has introduced two new multimode fibers in its high-performance InfiniCor product line. According to the company, the new InfiniCor CL series will enhance the performance and design of LANs. The InfiniCor CL series includes InfiniCor CL 1000 and InfiniCor CL 2000. Both are designed to operate in network link lengths that are longer than anything previously specified. Corning says that for Gigabit Ethernet compliant links, InfiniCor CL 1000 is guaranteed to transmit up to 500 meters at 850 nm and 1000 meters at 1300 nm, while InfiniCor CL 2000 is guaranteed to transmit up to 600 meters and 850 nm and 2000 meters at 1300 nm. (These guarantees apply only to links covered by a Corning-approved warranty program, says the company.) "Local area networks have undergone an amazing transformation in the last 12 months," said Windsor Thomas, Corning's premises product-line manager. "They have advanced from LED-based systems to precision, laser-based protocols, which can exceed the limits of standard multimode fiber. Corning has focused its research and development efforts on multimode fiber in order to provide a fiber that meets the LAN requirements of today, as well as tomorrow." According to Corning, InfiniCor CL is tailored for all premises applications in the campus backbone, building riser, and horizontal segments of the LAN, in addition to being standards-compliant and fully compatible with the installed base of multimode fibers. The company also says that InfiniCor CL is the first multimode fiber in the industry to eliminate the need for a mode conditioning patch cord. The new multimode fiber is upgradable and is designed to support operations at 2.5 and 10 gigibits per second over hundreds of meters.   PTB Home