Specialty Optical Fibers Handbook

POF transceivers. All apartments are equipped with 650-nm simplex transceivers

with reduced reach but very simple installation.

Wireless systems are installed in the rooms. The active node realizes the

handover. Because of the small required radio power in the rooms, the interfer-

ences between the radio cells are very small and the full WLAN capacity can be

used. One of the major reasons for the simplicity of installation is the use of

connector-less systems (Fig. 20.31). The customer can install all POFs without

special tools in seconds. Connector-less solutions are developed by DieMount

and Ratioplast/Infineon, for example.

At this time (2006),