Category Archives: Air Blown Fiber

Air-Blown Fiber Speeds Network Builds

Sumitomo Electric Lightwave’s FutureFLEX® Air-Blown Fiber® offers unprecedented ease of installation, flexibility, and cost savings for current and future network requirements. The FutureFLEX® solution, implemented by NET100, is compatible with any network infrastructure design.   The technology and design of Sumitomo’s air-blown fiber solution provides immediate scalability with installations of exact fiber types and counts […]

Air Blown Fiber Solutions – It’s All About the Tubes

Air Blown Fiber (ABF) is an alternative way to install fiber optic cable in a LAN environment. Instead of pulling standard fiber optic cable, ABF uses a method to blow fiber cable point-to-point through pre-installed tubes to anywhere on the network. The heart of the Sumitomo ABF system is a highway of tubes that can […]

Overcoming Fiber Installation Challenges During Office Lockdowns

As the COVID pandemic lingers, it’s challenging to continue “business as usual.” When it comes to installing fiber optics, no matter the size of project, there must be consideration for how to do it safely. Sumitomo Electric’s Air Blown Fiber (ABF) Solution has been around for decades, but was designed for times just like today. […]