Talk:Fiber-optic cable

message: The table Connector Boot / Meaning / Comment in the section "Patch cords" should be moved to Wiki page "Optical fiber connector" 80.254.148.43 (talk) 16:19, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Ethernet color-coding for RJ45 connectors has nothing to do with fiber optic cabling. The strands have color-coded buffer tubing (or a buffer coating) in the following order: Blue, Orange, Green, Brown, Slate, White, Red, Black, Yellow, Violet, Rose, and Aqua. WorldOfMe (talk) 21:18, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure what you are suggesting. The article already has that list of colors.--Srleffler (talk) 01:16, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Color-coding

message: I'm adding a request for citation on 
A critical concern in cabling is to protect the fiber from contamination by water, because its component hydrogen (hydronium) and hydroxyl ions can diffuse into the fiber, reducing the fiber's strength and increasing the optical attenuation. 
In all my years of work installing fiber optic cabling I have never heard of such a thing. The only danger of water to optical fiber that I ever heard of was that of freezing water, where formation of ice crystals in the cable can break the fiber. In non-freezing environments (such as tropical installations), water blocking in the cable is therefore a non-issue. 
I have not found any other citation on the internet for such a claim, except the echo chamber of other sites duplicating this WP article or text thereof.  Alan (talk) 21:48, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hydronium contamination of glass fiber? 

message: Does anyone know of a page recording the history of optical fibre?  Charlie Kao at STL labs in Harlow, Essex, UK, won (half of) the Nobel Prize for Physics for his trail blazing work in 1960-66 - should that not be here?  Does anyone know what was done in the USA or elsewhere?  Bell labs comes to mind, but I have no details.  
AndyB (talk) 15:38, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: You want the article Optical fiber.--Srleffler (talk) 04:28, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: History ??

message: I'm mildly opposed to the proposed merge from All-dielectric self-supporting cable. The latter is a new article, and it's not clear to me that it is less viable. We have stub articles on other types of telecomm cable, which are linked from this article. There may be enough to say about them to merit keeping them as separate articles rather than trying to merge them all here.--Srleffler (talk) 03:44, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge with [[All-dielectric self-supporting cable]] 

message: The table mentions Polyethylene as having poor UV resistance, but then the remark is "Good for outdoor applications". What?
50.68.13.81 (talk) 01:45, 12 September 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed the table and integrated what I believe was useful information the "Jacket material" section. The sources cited for each of the materials were supplier catalog listings that did not contain references for their own tables, so I don't believe anything of value was lost. Illini407 talk 18:53, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jacket material table