A backbone by LEAF® fiber provides network capacity and flexibility enabling future growth and compatibility with emerging network technologies. With its moderate dispersion and large effective area, LEAF fiber continues to be the fiber of choice for today’s high-data-rate and tomorrow’s all-optical long-haul and metropolitan networks.

Quick Facts:
- LEAF fiber is the most widely deployed NZ-DSF fiber in the world
- An ITU-T G.655-compliant fiber optimized for long-haul and high-data-rate metro networks
- LEAF fiber is the industry leader in PMD
- Introduced in 1998, LEAF fiber was the world’s first NZ-DSF with large effective area
- Winner of 4 industry excellence awards
- Deployed on 6 of the world’s seven continents and in more than 2 dozen countries
- The world's first low-water-peak NZ-DSF