Did you happen to see a recent article posted by Cabling Installation and Maintenance entitled “3 intriguing cable spaghetti ‘before and after’ scenarios”?  (If you haven’t, here it is)

After seeing CI & M’s article, we started thinking about some of our own cabinet nightmares and how we were able to improve the look and functionality.  Take a look at our before and after photos —  the “before” shot is the front of a cabinet without a proper cable management system in place.  The “after” shot was achieved simply by adding our 25 pair connectivity on the back of the rack with proper cable management!  What do you think?!

The Before…

And the after…

Advantages of our 25 pair solution:

• Reduced install costs by 20% +
• Reduced install time by 75%
• Switch upgrades are faster and easier
• Less cables to manage between racks, easier management
• Easier to track cables between racks
• Mac work can be handled by onsite staff
• Less Mess and Cleanup
• Better Cable management
• Re-useable Cables
• Throughput Guarantees, Gigabit Ethernet Guarantee
• Alien Crosstalk (ANEXT) Mitigation
• 35% reduction in OD of cable bundles
• Smaller bundles mean less blocking of cooling air flow, reducing power and cooling costs.
• 20 % reduction of cable weight on raised floor

So you tell us…

OCC’s Quad Box provides the ultimate in flexibility and functionality and is ideal for installations requiring minimal downtime.  Take a look at our video to hear more on why OCC’s Quad Box stands out from all the rest:

The demand for power continues to grow worldwide with the majority of it being produced via coal fired power plants.  This in turn increases the demand for coal requiring coal mines to be more efficient in their operations.  The mining community has responded by developing faster methods of mining that use more sophisticated equipment.  This equipment is monitored for peak performance and the data is transmitted back to the surface.  The transmission is typically done via fiber optic cables, which OCC has been providing to the mining markets for over 15 years.  OCC fiber optic cable solutions for mining offer a comprehensive and versatile set of products to address the mining industry’s voice, data, and video cabling requirements, including fiber optic cables that are MSHA rated for underground use.

The unique cable designs and configurations from OCC provide long-term reliability, as well as safe and secure transmission of critical data and communications. Our unique Core-Locked™ technology in combination with other design features provides the most rugged fiber optic cable in the industry.  On top of that, OCC is the only manufacturer that has a line of connectivity products to complement our cable.  F-LINK, EZ-MATE and M-83526 connectors are just a couple of the extremely rugged and durable connectors that are being used in the mining industry due to their ability to survive harsh environments.

At the end of September, OCC will be exhibiting at the world’s largest mining show, MinExpo, in Las Vegas.  We will be promoting our entire line of products with a focus on our MSHA cables and Harsh environment products.  In particular we will have our MSHA cables, EZ-MATE, and MHC II on display. Are you attending MinExpo?  Be sure to stop by OCC’s booth to see all the great products and solutions we have to offer the Mining industry!

With more and more new data centers popping up everyday, structured cabling design and installation have become increasingly more important.   With increased data rates and larger cable counts, the debate on the pros and cons of fiber optic cable and copper cable in the industry has become more pronounced.  While copper is less expensive, easier to install and more readily available, fiber can carry a lot more data with speeds much faster than copper — all the while being thinner and weighing much less than copper cable. However, if your focus is PoE based, telephone, or surveillance, copper offers the distinct advantage of delivering both power and data to your devices.

While both fiber optic and copper cable each have their own set of pros and cons for different on your applications, it seems that combining the two in the data center on some level is imminent.  OCC products are designed with this synergy in mind.  The new OCC high density Procyon solution has been architected to provide both copper and fiber connectivity with the highest density available on the market, with novel cable management features to ease your high density operating experience.  Our Procyon solution offers customers the best of both worlds in fiber optic cable and copper cable.

For serious data center operators, OCC has developed a complete end to end solution approach for both your copper and fiber cabling and connectivity needs.  OCC’s Procyon products are high density and a pre-terminated product set designed for easy installation and novel cable management features that accessibility a breeze at a cost effective price.

Want to learn more about our Procyon solution?  Visit our website or contact us today!   800-622-7711  visit www.occfiber.com/procyon.

Mike Martin is a Business Development Manager for OCC specializing in the Oil and Gas Industry.

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As a first for the company, OCC published a market brochure aimed at the Oil & Gas markets and it debuted just in time for the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in May. OCC continued its push into the Oil and Gas markets by having a fantastic new booth with products geared toward the Oil and Gas markets and had great representation in the booth that included both domestic and international representatives. Attendance at the 2012 OTC Show hit a 30-year high with more than 89,400 making the trip to Houston’s Reliant Park and it showed in the quantity and quality of the visitors to OCC’s booth.

Visitors from around the world gave this year’s event a true international flair, allowing OCC to showcase it’s Oil and Gas products to more than 200 booth visitors representing 15 countries, including visitors from throughout the USA and countries such as Canada, China, Mexico, Great Britain, Saudi Arabia, Ecuador, Brazil and many others.  Since the show is geared toward the offshore Oil and Gas market, OCC’s booth highlighted our LSZH Marine Grade fiber optic cables, the harsh environment connectivity line including products manufactured of marine grade brass and fiber/copper connectivity products.  OTC was yet another great show for OCC and we look forward to returning to Reliant Park in Houston, Texas next year!

Bill Smith, OCC’s Business Development Specialist, serves as a member of Society of Broadcast Engineers and has over 20 years of experience in Technical Sales in the Communication Industry.

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The Broadcast market moves many cables in and out of production studios and remote production events. OCC developed the Cartridge System to increase the reliability of handling diverse cables. This stackable reel system minimizes down time and set-up because of its unique configuration. Everything you need is contained in one single unit.

Optical Cable Corporation’s MARS™ Cartridge System is another accessory member of Modular Advanced Reel System specifically designed for fiber optic cable. The MARS Cartridge System offers the most advanced, self-contained, fiber optic reeling system for broadcast, military or deployable communication environments. MARS reels are designed to inter-operate across a full family of reel accessories. The MARS Cartridge system employs many of the same cradle features found in the MARS Cradle system (reel release knob and roller reels) allowing multiple reels to be exchanged within one platform.  For more details and product demonstrations, please visit us at NAB Booth # C10345 in Las Vegas April 15^th-19th.

Please take a look in the new 2012 catalog or on the website at https://www.occfiber.com/ or contact a member from the Sales team for more information- 1-800-622-7711

As more people use their living room as their “movie theatre”, the expectations of high quality and high definition signaling and picture have never been greater. As a result, fiber optic technology plays a key role in bringing unparalleled signal integrity from the studio, arena or sporting event to the home.

OCC’s reputation in providing products for harsh environments fits perfectly into the broadcast industry where down time is not acceptable. We have, and continue to provide, the broadcast market with fiber optic cables that are field-tested to withstand the most extreme handling. OCC’s stadium and arena cables are optimized for the rigors of difficult cable pulls, high tensile loading, and severe crush occurrences and can repeatedly endure the abuse associated with the extreme demands in rapid deployment and retrieval applications. Where standard fiber optic cables are likely to fail, OCC’s broadcast cables are particularly well suited to the harsh environment of field-shoots.

In the coming weeks, OCC will be exhibiting several of our broadcast products at the 2012 NAB show in Las Vegas.  Some of these products include our new MHC II connectors, MARS Reels, Cartridge System, and of course OCC’s line of broadcast cables.  With OCC’s cables, broadcasters have a practical and reliable way of reaping the benefits of high capacity data transmission in challenging environments without the delicacy normally associated with traditional fiber optic cables.

Stephen Porach, Manager Business Development for the Enterprise Solutions, has a degree in Mechanical Engineering (BSME) and has worked in the telecommunications industry for over 17 years.  He previously worked for SMP Data in a Marketing and Technical Sales role and has held numerous other positions in the electrical, mechanical, and telecommunications markets.
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We just returned from the 2012 BICSI Winter Conference, which was  one of OCC’s most successful product launches.  The  Procyon family of pre-terminated fiber cable, fiber enclosures and data center cabinets is the culmination of over a year of soliciting customer feedback and broad industry research.

Data Centers continue to be the fastest growing segment of the telecommunications industry.  Recent studies indicate that data centers  will continue to experience significant growth for at least the next 5 years.  Since 2008, over 50% of the traffic on the internet either  originates or terminates in a data center.  And, traffic within the data center has more than doubled.  This is not limited to just the large data centers owned by Google and Apple, new regulations in the medical industry demand increased data management, state and local governments are digitizing records; all this fuels the need for data centers, large and small.  Procyon product line is designed to capture both the fiber and copper infrastructure within that space.

OCC’s Procyon fiber enclosures offer the highest density copper and fiber terminations in the industry.  What does this mean, for  a 10 Gig fiber application?  It means 144 fibers in one rack space.  That same enclosure can also handle 1152 fibers supporting a 100 Gig application!  Procyon offers a clear migration path for the user as they increase data throughput from 10 Gig to 40 Gig and up to 100 Gig, all with pre-terminated cables and cassettes.

OCC’s  engineering team has developed two new fiber optic cable constructions for the Procyon family.  The HD cable is an indoor plenum rated high density cable suitable for MPO type terminations.  The new HC cable is another of OCC’s popular indoor/outdoor fiber optic  cables.  Its diameter is 20% less than the competition,  and because it does not use ribbonized fiber, it has no preferential bending.  Speaking of bend radius…both cables are offered with OCC’s bend tolerant fiber.  OCC’s bend tolerant cables offer the best bend radius performance in the industry.  This is very important feature as  fiber optic cables are now being installed in some very tight spaces.

OCC’s  new Procyon Data Center cabinets make  a great home for our fiber enclosures and cables as well as the servers and switches they will be connected to.  These cabinets are 42” in depth and 45 rack units tall.  The server cabinet is 24” wide and the switching/patching cabinet is 30” wide, these cabinetsare specifically designed to provide optimal  cable management  supporting  increased cable volume .  The cabinets also have several unique features such as angled pdu support brackets which makes it easy to access cable and view displays, easily adjustable front and back mounting rails and PDU mounting brackets which can accommodate popular vendor components.  These are just a few of the features offered with the Procyon Data Center cabinet making it  the ideal choice to support telecommunications equipment in all applications.

Please take a look in the new 2016 catalog or on the website, or contact a member from the Sales team for more information.

Dr Ian Timmins is a senior member of technical staff in the research and development group in Asheville, NC. His areas of interest include wireless communications, distributed antenna systems, high performance copper and fiber cabling, data centers, and green energy initiatives. Ian is an IEEE member and participates in several standards development groups.
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Density is one of the leading considerations for data center designers and operators with all major industry connectivity players offering new solutions for today’s technology demands as well as pathways to the projected requirements of tomorrow. That being said, density in the data center is emerging as a key design consideration for two distinct reasons:

1. Cost attributed to installation and maintaining cabinet space on a per rack unit basis
drives higher interconnect counts into a traditional form factor.

2.  Emerging technologies require more fiber counts for the upcoming 40G and 100G
Ethernet.

OCC’s new Procyon product was designed to accommodate these trends in technology; providing high density connectivity components orientated at LC (10G) and MT (40 and 100G) based connectivity, as well as the impending evolution between the two technologies.  Uniquely, OCC has engineered these products with very distinctive features compared to the leading competition designed with the end user experience in mind.  To compensate for this trend towards increased density, cable management features for enhanced accessibility of both the trunk cables in the rear and patch cords in the front

have been patented and released to market in February 2012.  The Procyon system offers pre-terminated trunk cable assemblies for quick on site installation, as well as elimination of field termination of high count fiber optic connectors. Furthermore, Procyon 10G, 40G and 100G cassettes offer integrated cable management features designed for ease of accessibility for anyone wanting high density while maintaining easy individual jumper access.  Beyond this ground breaking feature to cassette design is the accompanying patch panel chassis features, including a distinct 3-tier cable management system that couples the high density cassettes in a vertical manner directly to the chassis to ensure easy of cassette removal when installed density is at maximum. For trunk cable installation on the rear of the patch panel, the high density sub groups are managed with OCC’s Temp Grip technology which provides a quick and convenient mechanism to configure your interconnect hardware.

To check out OCC’s solution to the problems of high density requirements of the data center, visit https://www.occfiber.com/procyon .

OCC’s Regional Manager, AG Melson, talks with customers about some of the features and benefits of OCC’s new HC cable at the 2012 BICSI Winter Conference in Orlando, FL!