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environments. There are many advantages of using fiber optic cabling over traditional
cabling.
Advantages of fiber optic cabling
Fiber optic cabling solves these problems and offers users:
- High data rate and wide bandwidth
- Immunity to EMI/RFI and lightning damage
- No ground loops
- Low attenuation (data loss)
- Longer distance - 2 and 5 km with Multimode fiber or over 25 km with Single
Mode fiber
- Small cable diameter fits anywhere
- Light weight
- No sparks if cut
- No shock hazard
- Secure communications
- Low system cost
- Longer life expectancy than copper or coaxial cable
- Cabling of the future
Disadvantages of Electronic cabling (Twisted Pair (TP), Coax, Twinax)
In designing local networks with traditional cabling, systems users are faced
with several major constraints:
- Cost
- Cabling hassles: weight, routing, size, attenuation, and cross-talk
- Distance between terminals and hosts limited to a few meters
- Limited topologies
- Large diameter cable fills plenums and conduits
- Needs to be routed away from power and control cabling
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