Fiber Optic Cable, Through Beam, 120Mm

Hello. I'm Mercy with Discount-Low-Voltage.com, and we're going to go over a quick fiber optic termination how-to demo here. Now, on my left hand side here I have some of the older style fiber optic connectors where you've got to use some glue, you've got to polish them, you've got to use the oven. There's a lot of labor involved that way. These connectors are a lot cheaper, but labor-wise they suck - just too much work. Assembly houses still do use these to keep the cost of fiber optic patch cords down, but other than that, that's pretty much the most commonly used connector for this connector nowadays. Now, over the past 10 years, we've come to the AFL fiber optic fast connector. This is a very easy connector to terminate. They really focused on making it really no labor for you. They cut down the labor, and how they did that was, they went ahead and put a piece of fiber optic gla