Air Blown Fibre was conceived by British Telecom with the objective to establish a fibre cabling system that once installed, could then be upgraded, extended and even replaced without the expense of re-laying cable, disturbing the fabric of a building or digging-up the roads.

Patented by BT, blown fibre techniques have been progressed during three decades by several specialist manufacturers. Blolite, a company that is now a part of FOSS technology partner Brand Rex, took the blown fibre into the premises cabling arena. Their technology is a versatile and truly futureproof fibre infrastructure solution for many application areas, such as fibre to the desk / home, Backbone, Horizontal, Campus, Access, Metro and Data centre applications. The Blolite Air Blown Fibre system provides the ability to change your infrastructure as demands on the network dictate.

 Benefits of Air Blown Fibre Solutions

• For Integrators, the clear advantage of blown fibre is that it reduces the number of optical fibre splices in a network. Thus, optical attenuation losses are significantly reduced.
• In a new build, the protected microducts can be installed early on in a project and the blown fibre introduced once the building project has progressed
• For the owner of a network or a commercial premise, the advantages of blown fibre are very tangible when the potential savings are considered against the whole lifecycle and associated costs of both premises cabling and conventional sheathed cable systems.

FOSS partner Brand-Rex offers two complementary technologies for providing fibre to the end user:

Blotite - air blown fibre system

MicroBlo – air blown MicroCable system

Blolite system was one of the first Air Blown Fibre systems to be supplied for cabling infrastructure applications. It is a very versatile system with backbone and / or fibre to the desk links and can allow for long distance links of up to 1 km.

Blolite fibres are easily installed into Blolite MicroDucts without disruption to the workplace, they are simply terminated are compatible with all standard optical connectors.

Blolite is extremely reliable, with a zero failure rate since the first installations in 1988.

MicroBlo represents the natural evolution of Blolite. By introducing a range of MicroCables optimised for blowing into Microducts, today’s greater demand of increased distances and fibre counts can be met. Using the same principle of deferring cost, ease of upgrade and flexibility within the system, MicroBlo MicroCables can offer an ideal solution for network demands.

Both systems are compliant with IEC 60794-5 Optical fibre cables – Part 5: Sectional specification for MicroDuct cabling for installation by blowing.

Our solutions offer complete freedom from risk by pre-installing a MicroDuct route that can be modified at any time throughout the life of the network.