Re­search con­duct­ed by the In­sti­tute of Elec­tri­cal and Elec­tron­ics En­gi­neers (IEEE) and ti­tled The Im­pact of Tech­nol­o­gy in 2023 and Be­yond: A Glob­al Study, in­di­cates the telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions and au­to­mo­tive sec­tors were two of the most im­pact­ed by tech­nolo­gies last year.

And among the tech­nolo­gies most cit­ed as im­por­tant in 2022, ac­cord­ing to the same study, are 5G (with 66 per cent), cloud com­put­ing (with 36 per cent) and the In­dus­tri­al In­ter­net of Things (IIoT), with 34 per cent.

With an eye on these mar­kets, Corn­ing Op­ti­cal Com­mu­ni­ca­tions, a lead­ing man­u­fac­tur­er of fi­bre and op­ti­cal con­nec­tiv­i­ty world­wide, has just launched a new fam­i­ly of shield­ed hoses in the Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean re­gion.

In a news re­lease, Corn­ing Op­ti­cal Com­mu­ni­ca­tions de­scribed the shield­ed hoses as “flex­i­ble, easy to in­stall, high dura­bil­i­ty, good re­sis­tance to crush­ing and pres­sure,” adding that the new so­lu­tion has “the same per­for­mance as stan­dard op­ti­cal ca­bles, but with the re­in­forc­ing dif­fer­en­tial in its struc­ture.”

With an ar­moured ca­ble that fea­tures a stain­less steel tube in­ter­twined over a tight pro­tec­tive coat­ed fi­bre, which is sur­round­ed by a lay­er of aramid wire and an out­er sheath to fur­ther pro­tect the ca­ble, shield­ed op­ti­cal ca­bles fea­ture a rugged steel ar­mour de­sign, which can pro­vide much greater com­pres­sion. Re­sis­tance to dam­age from in­ad­e­quate twist­ing and crush­ing, pro­tec­tion against ro­dents and in­creased safe­ty, mak­ing it ide­al for in­dus­tri­al and heavy traf­fic ar­eas.

“The new shield­ed op­ti­cal ca­ble is flex­i­ble, stronger and, at the same time, eas­i­er to in­stall. Its stain­less steel tube in­side the out­er shell pro­vides high dura­bil­i­ty, good crush and pres­sure re­sis­tance, en­sur­ing ad­di­tion­al pro­tec­tion against im­prop­er twist­ing – a tai­lor-made so­lu­tion for da­ta cen­tres and harsh en­vi­ron­ments. Avail­able for 3.0 mm DFX® and 2x2.0 mm du­plex ca­bles, the new prod­uct fea­tures two types of ter­mi­na­tions (SC and LC con­nec­tors), is avail­able in sin­gle-mode and mul­ti­mode fi­bre,” said Gio­vani Macha­do, Corn­ing’s mar­ket­ing man­ag­er for Latin Amer­i­ca.

The ca­ble is in­tend­ed for da­ta cen­tres and harsh en­vi­ron­ments and the new so­lu­tion has the same per­for­mance as stan­dard op­ti­cal ca­bles, said Corn­ing.

Corn­ing Op­ti­cal Com­mu­ni­ca­tions is a busi­ness di­vi­sion of Corn­ing Inc., one of the world’s most in­no­v­a­tive ma­te­ri­als sci­ence com­pa­nies, in­ven­tor of low-loss fi­bre, a leader in its field and with more than 170 years of his­to­ry.

The di­vi­sion is present world­wide, hav­ing set the op­ti­cal con­nec­tiv­i­ty stan­dard for the largest FT­Tx broad­band projects and present in the world’s largest da­ta cen­tres. Latin Amer­i­ca is con­sid­ered a strate­gic mar­ket for the com­pa­ny, giv­en the cru­cial tech­no­log­i­cal mo­ment it is ex­pe­ri­enc­ing with the ex­pan­sion of net­works.

In this re­gion, the com­pa­ny has two fac­to­ries, one in Mex­i­co and one in Brazil, with lo­cal de­vel­op­ment that is re­spon­si­ble for meet­ing the de­mand of the en­tire re­gion, in ad­di­tion to ex­port­ing to oth­er mar­kets such as the Unit­ed States.