3M™ Expanded Beam Optical Ferrule, 16 Fiber
- 3M Product Number 16F
- 3M ID B5005524001
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Highlights
- Allows for faster time to revenue with comparable signal performance vs. physical contact and conventional EBO connectors
- Can provide significant time savings by potentially reducing the need for connector inspection and cleaning during link testing
- Dust sensitive process helps reduce migration of dust into the optical path over time
- Helps reduce maintenance requirements in demanding environments
- Very low mating force allows multiple fibre optic ferrules to be stacked into single connectors for versatility and scalability
- Optimised for hyperscale data centres and edge computing environments
3M™ Expanded Beam Optical Ferrule, 16F allows for faster time to revenue with comparable signal performance vs. physical contact and conventional EBO connectors. The 3M EBO ferrule provides very low mating force so multiple optical ferrules can be stacked into single connectors, allowing efficient data centre rollouts and the upgrade of existing facilities.
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Time to Revenue
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The precision of parallel alignment
The 3M EBO ferrule delivers typical insertion loss comparable to that of physical-contact (PC) connectors, and return loss performance exceeding that of PCs (reflectance ≥55 dB single mode and ≥35 dB multimode). The parallel alignment virtually eliminates exposure to dust and drastically reduce the chance of contamination from small particles at any point during assembly or use.
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Faster to revenue
The 3M EBO ferrule design, combined with extremely low mating force, can help reduce installation time from about three minutes per conventional physical contact connectors to about 30 seconds when using 3M EBO ferrules.
Installation and deployment time using 3M EBO ferrules can potentially be reduced from six months to as little as three days. Some estimates place potential savings up to $100,000 per day.*
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Faster to maintain
The compact 3M EBO ferrules drastically reduce time related to cleaning and maintenance vs. traditional physical connectors or conventional EBO. The 3M EBO ferrule design helps reduce cleaning time up to 90% vs. physical contact connectors.
*Times are based on an actual 3M customer deployment.
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