Data over plastic fibre? - I thought I'd got my head around the whole business but here is an article from my institute's magazine. It seems that there are a couple of cable suppliers who are now offering plastic fibre - quite how you end this stuff off isn't explained. Presumably a fusion splicer is out of the question! I'd also be interested to find out how you cleave it as plastic is a lot less brittle than glass and so probably shears rather than splits - hmmm. Will research some more.