A new study suggests that most installers don’t fully understand how important cleaning fibre interfaces before deployment is.

Greg Rymar at Hughes’ responded “Pristine interfaces are almost as important as good termination; time and again I’ve witnessed fibre being installed directly after removing the protective cap off a over connector and believing it to be clean deploying it immediately, perhaps worse cleaning connector end faces with standard alcohol wipes or worst of all deploying connectors that have long ago lost any ferule protection it ever had.

Optical cables are set to lie at the heart of Britain’s superfast cellular networks but bad cable management is slowing downing down signals, incurring losses and under performance.

“The simple truth is that the industry relies on the same old school cable management techniques they’ve always used for Copper” says Carmelita Silva of Hughes Electronics.

Hughes Electronics has been proud to supply components to the nine 5G trial sites in and around East London. But, as everyone involved with 5g knows, deploying the technology presents its challenges Howard Watson, BT CTIO says:

“Deploying this brand new layer is far from straightforward, this trial has helped us to understand and learn how to overcome the significant challenges that we’ll face in the coming years. New equipment at each site is essential to 5G. The trial has highlighted the following key challenges when deploying 5G:

Length is important (when it comes to cables)

Cable lengths in mobile base station structures are much more important than previously thought according to a new study, which has discovered that adjusting a jumper cable length by as little as 1cm can significantly influence PIM.

Three and BT-owned EE had filed separate complaints over a proposed bidding war that was scheduled to take place later this year.

Three argues that Ofcom should be stricter with its spectrum caps, limiting EE's spending power and potential allocation, while BT believes that there should be no restrictions whatsoever. The High Court disagreed with both today, believing that Ofcom had done its homework and properly modelled how different caps would affect the outcome of the bid and, subsequently, consumer choice in the UK.

Length is important (when it comes to cables)

Cable length in mobile base station structures is more important than previously thought according to a new study. Research suggests that standard metre denominated lengths of Jumper and feeder cables are rarely phase congruent (with commonly used frequencies) and can cause higher levels of PIM.

7-16 Jumpers converted to 43-10 in minutes!

The 43-10 connector has definitely arrived. But reports of antenna’s arriving donned with 43-10 outlets without warning, followed by subsequent deliveries of Antennas sporting 7/16 outlets is putting a strain on the cellular communications industry.

The move to 43-10 is causing confusion and not inconsiderable difficulties as stakeholders are caught out with stocks of Jumpers with the wrong lengths and wrong types of terminations.

Hughes offer hassle free London Logistics Service

London’s burning hot with cellular activity, current Vodafone, Huawei, TEF and EE activity make London the nation’s hotspot for Cellular installations. But stakeholders in London face a special set of logistical problems, traffic, on time deliveries, congestion charge and those impossible to find parking spots can make working in the capital a nightmare!