Optical Fiber is the new Copper..

Optical Fiber is the new Copper..

Optical fiber has many advantages over the legacy copper cables. includes and not limited to:

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1. Bigger bandwidth
Fiber provides  bigger BW that enables

higher transmission rates than copper. up to 100 Gbps and beyond. More bandwidth means fiber can carry more information than copper wire.

2. Low Latency and Higher distance
Electric Signals propagate in fiber in the form of light, very little signal loss occurs during transmission, and data can move at nearly the speed of the light in the medium. low loss enables longer travel distances. while unshielded twisted pair copper travels around 100-meter (328-ft.) distance. Fiber distances depend on the type of cable, wavelength and technology. Distances can reach 40 kilometers for single-mode cable.

3. Security
Tapping Optical Fiber Cable is extremely difficult. unlike normal Copper cable which can be tapped easily taking a portion of the electric voltage and current which is carrying te signals and spy on them. while the case with OF cable is that tapping the cable will fail the whole system and you will certainly know that there is a problem at some point causing leakage of light. and the fault location can be easily detected with an OTDR Device.

4. Immunity and reliability
Fiber provides extremely reliable data transmission. It’s immune to EMI which affect copper cable.

5. physical condtruction
Fiber is lightweight than copper, smaller in size, and more durable.

the capacity of a fiber cable increases while the size remains the same. unlike copper cables sizes which increase rapidly and linearly with the capacity.

6. Easy Upgrade
Media converters can be easily used with minimal cost and footprint to integrate an existing copper network to a fiber transmission network, Optical fiber technologies like SDH, OTN offer access to tributary customer channels of electrical interfaces up to E1, E3, STM1

7. Field termination.
Although Fiber requires more professionalism and expensive equipment, but less work and less time to do terminations and splicing

8. Cost

although the fact that the cost of a 1 meter fiber cable will be more expensive than a cupper cable, but in the long runs, the total cost of fiber decreases dramatically when compared to a copper cable, especially when we consider the high data rate cables of both types.

I wish that you found this comparison of Optical Fiber VS Copper Cables satisfactory and beneficial.