Fiber Optic Video News and Perspective

Not long ago, most broadcast facilities were designed without the benefit of fiber-optic infrastructures and relied primarily on copper-based coaxial and twisted pair cabling. Now that fiber-optic technologies have become more cost-effective and the bandwidth demands of uncompressed video signals have soared, designing a facility without fiber is unthinkable. In the mobile OB environment, there are similar but even more compelling, needs for a fiber-optic infrastructure.  However, the design considerations surrounding OB infrastructures differ significantly from fixed installations.