What are the advantages of Fiber Optics over Copper Wire? What are the advantages of Fiber Optics over Copper wire?
Fiber's extra distance capability and seemingly unlimited data rate makes it possible to do things not possible with copper wire. For example, you can install all the electronics for a network in one communications closet for a building and run straight to the desk with fiber. With copper, you can only transmit about 90 meters (less than 300 feet), thus requiring more telecom closets in each building. With fiber, you only need passive patch panels locally to allow for moves. Upgrades can be rather difficult with copper wire, but not with fiber because the real capacity of fiber is only partially utilized at today's network speed. Many use fiber to connect all their central offices and long distance switches because it has thousands of times the bandwidth of copper wire and can carry signals hundreds of times further before needing a repeater. The cable and telephone providers use fiber because it gives them greater reliability with the opportunity to offer new services, like digital phone service and internet connections. They also use fiber for economic reasons, but their cost justification requires adopting new network architectures to take advantage of the fiber's strengths.
Uses of Fiber Optic Cables
Fiber optic cables find many uses in a wide variety of industries and applications. Some uses of fiber optic cables include:
•Medical
Used as light guides, imaging tools and also as lasers for surgeries
•Defense/Government
Used as hydrophones for seismic and SONAR uses, as wiring in aircraft, submarines and other vehicles and also for field networking
•Data Storage
Used for data transmission
•Telecommunications
Fiber is laid and used for transmitting and receiving purposes
•Networking
Used to connect users and servers in a variety of network settings and help increase the speed and accuracy of data transmission
•Industrial/Commercial
Used for imaging in hard to reach areas, as wiring where EMI is an issue, as sensory devices to make temperature, pressure and other measurements, and as wiring in automobiles and in industrial settings
•Broadcast/CATV
Broadcast/cable companies are using fiber optic cables for wiring CATV, HDTV, internet, video on-demand and other applications
Fiber optic cables are used for lighting and imaging and as sensors to measure and monitor a vast array of variables. Fiber optic cables are also used in research and development and testing across all the above mentioned industries.
Fibre-to-the-home is the future for telephone, television and internet communications and streaming video is the future of television.
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Valdor Technology is a fibre optic components company specializing in the design, manufacture and sale of fibre optic splitters, connectors, laser pigtails and other optical and optoelectronic components, including some that use Valdor proprietary and patented technologies. The company specializes in harsh environment products and in particular splitters and connectors;
Valdor's Niagara Streaming Media, is a streaming video business that holds four patents and markets the Niagara and GoStream product lines.
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