CHELTENHAM, U.K. -- ADC (NASDAQ: ADCT) announced today that KRONE, recently acquired by ADC, has launched a new blown-fibre option for its highly successful OM3 10 Gigabit per Second (Gigabit/s) fibre solution.

Offering 10 Gigabit/s link lengths up to 300 metres, the new KRONE OM3 grade fibre can be blown-in to new or existing blown fibre tubes in bundles of 4, 8 or 12 fibres.

"The beauty of blown fibre installation," said Alastair Waite, fibre product manager of KRONE products for ADC, "is that upgrades to higher capacity can be performed simply and cost-effectively without expensive and disruptive cable laying."

Using simple fibre-blowing apparatus, the whole 300 metre length of between 4 and 12 fibres can be blown-in in a matter of minutes. Once the upgraded fibre links are commissioned and in service any previously used fibre can be simply recovered and re-used elsewhere.

The new OM3 blown fibre has a minimum effective modal bandwidth (EMB) of 2,000MHz.km at 850mm wavelength with LASER OR VCSEL excitation. It also eliminates the need for mode-conditioning patch cords on 1,300mm systems.

As with all fibre solutions developed by KRONE, the new OM3-grade 10 Gigabit/s blown fibre is fully supported with fibre patch panels, a range of fibre connectors, patch cords and pig-tails.

The OM3 blown fibre is suitable for 10 Gigabit/s Ethernet, OC-192 as well as FC, 2xFC and 4xFC fibre channel commonly used in Storage Area Networks (SANs) and data centres. It meets TIA/EIA-492 AAAC, ISO/IEC 11801 OM and IEC 60793-2-10 A1a.2 standards.

Krone Inc.