Glossary
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Consumables kit | Resupply material for splicing or terminating fiber optics.
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Contact | Contact - Referred to the conductive element in a connector that facilitates the transferring of the electrical energy form one side to the other. A pin is usually the contact.
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Contact Size | Contact Size - This usually relates to the maximum size of the wire that the contact can nominally accommodate. It is based on that AWG size
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Continuity |
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Contractor | Company undertaking cellular antenna system rigging works.
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Controlled environmental vault (CEV) |
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Copper Distributed Data Interface (CDDI) | A version of FDDI that uses copper wire media instead of fiber-optic cable and operates at 100Mbps. See also twisted-pair physical media dependent (TP-PMD).
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Cordage | Fiber-optic cable designed for use as a patch cord or jumper. Cordage may be either single-fiber (simplex) or double fiber (duplex).
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Core | The central part of a single optical fiber in which the light signal is transmitted. Common core sizes are 8.3 microns, 50 microns, and 62.5 microns. The core is surrounded by a cladding that has a higher refractive index that keeps the light inside the core. The core is typically made of glass or plastic.
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Core eccentricity | A measurement that indicates how far off the center of the core of an optical fiber is from the center of that fiber
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Counter-rotating |
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Coupler | With respect to optical fiber, a passive, multiport device that connects three or more fiber ends, dividing the input between several outputs or combining several inputs into one output.
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Coupling |
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Coupling efficiency |
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Coupling loss | The amount of signal loss that occurs at a connection because of the connection
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