8 fiber cable and 12 fiber cable can be used at the same time?

believe that a lot of people will face the same problem when using optical cable, it is 8 fiber cable and 12 fiber cable can be used at the same time?

this is not necessarily. Depending on our understanding of 'use' at the same time. If it understood as direct mix component, and a 8 core backbone fiber optic cable plugged into a 12 modules on optical fibers, the answer is definitely 'can't'.

according to the design purpose, the two groups cannot directly into each other on the component, in the same way, on 12 fiber cable and 8 fiber cable design appearance is different also, so can not be used in the same cable connections at the same time 8 fiber cable and 12 fiber cable components. The appearance of the two kinds of cable in one of the main differences are, at the ends of the 12 core backbone fiber optic cable connectors are generally not positioning pin, and you need to use a positioning pin connection mold piece. But the emergence of new 8 core backbone fiber optic cable, connector on both ends were with positioning pin at the time of manufacture. Eight core backbone optical cable, therefore, certainly can't plugged into 12 fiber cable connection module, because this means that we try to two with a positioning pin connected together.

the backbone fiber optic cable plug scheme of this change, because it has more advantages, can ensure that whenever in the network using a fiber optic cable, fiber cable 8 MTP jump line ends can always use no positioning pin connector. This can simplify network deployment, and don't need to buy a lot with MTP jump line positioning pin connector head. But if the 'use' at the same time as the same data center using 8 fiber cable and at the same time 12 fiber cable connection technology, then the answer is 'yes', but on one condition. This condition is 8 fiber cable must be used independently and 12 fiber cable, because we have already mentioned in the above, the fiber cable and fiber cable components themselves do not swap, and in the same cable link, 8 fiber cable and 12 fiber cable components cannot be plugged into each other.

as a result, the data center management should pay attention when the physical infrastructure, to ensure that the fiber cable 8 and 12 fiber cable components not in the same cable link to mix.