However optical fiber has a few idiosyncrasies.
Broken fiber optic cable.
After going through the steps for repairing the fiber optic cable you may wonder whether you should chose the mechanical splicing or fusion splicing.
Thats worse than just broken.
The most common damage is a broken fiber which is difficult to detect.
The basic approach to pulling fiber optic cable and copper cable is similar.
While fiber optic wires are designed to be resistant damage still happens.
The glass fiber within the cable is fragile and although the cable has been designed to protect the fiber it can be damaged more easily than a copper wire.
The failure of optical fiber cable will lead to a interruption for data transmission so to fix the damaged optical cable in time is an important task.
The image below shows a fibre optic patch where the rack door has been pressing on the patch where the strain relief ends and rather obviously bend radius has been severely compromised.
It is quite difficult to test a damaged cable making the choice of replacing your fiber optic wires the best alternative.
This online session will guide you through.