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Have you ever encountered a situation where you want to just fuse a new optical fibre cable with an existing one, simply to make it longer or for the purposes of expanding your already existing fibre optic network?

Fusion splicing is a term that comes from the fibre optic communications industry. It refers to the process of joining, or splicing, two optical fibres end-to-end. The fibres are heated to the point that the ends soften and fuse together, thus giving the process its name.