For a splicer to be practical it needs to be rugged, portable, reliable and easy to use. Larry Wesson, president of Aurora Optics, says that his company is seeing growing demand from military and ...

But a fiber laser with ... helped him splice the optics back together – seeing the splicing rig in action is worth the price of admission alone – and the unit seems to be in more or less ...

and explains the design decisions he’s made — from splicing fiber optics himself, to building a PC to do routing instead of getting a hardware Small Form-factor Pluggable (SFP) equipped router.