10 Reasons Fiber Cable is Better Than Copper Cables For Patch Cord Applications.
10 Reasons Fiber Cables is Better Than Copper Cables For Patch Cord Applications.
- 10 Reasons:
- Less Power and Signal Loss
- Greater Bandwidth: up to 100 Gbps and beyond. More bandwidth means fiber can carry more information
- Speed & Distance: Copper 100-meter (328-ft.) distance Fiber Distances can range from 550 meters (984.2 ft.) for 10-Gbps multimode and up to 40 kilometers (24.8 mi.) for single-mode fiber cable.
- Security: Fiber doesn’t radiate signals and is extremely difficult to tap. Any attempt that is made to break the physical security of your fiber system, the system will know it.
- Centralize: Fiber networks also enable you to put all your electronics and hardware in one central location
- Reliability: Fiber is completely immune to many environmental factors that affect copper cable. It’s immune to electrometric interference and radio-frequency interference (EMI/RFI), crosstalk, impedance problems, and more.
- Design: Fiber is lightweight, thin, and more durable when armored, than copper cable.
- Migration: The proliferation and lower costs of media converters are making copper to fiber migration much easier. Fiber can be incorporated into network in planned upgrades.
- Field Termination: Quick fusion splicers enables with auto-alignments enable fast splicing in the field.
- Cost: Fiber typically costs less to maintain, has less downtime, and requires less networking hardware. In addition, advances in field termination technology has reduced the cost of fiber installation as well.