Fiber Optic Cables

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Fiber optic cables are the new technology to gaining faster speeds when it comes to data transfer. This cable is being used for telephone communication, medical imaging, cable TV, and etc. Now in order to achieve high speed broadband, you'd need fiber optic cables. A fiber optic cable is made purely of hair-like strand or strands of glass at its core,an outer material called Cladding,and a plastic on its outer coating. The reason it was made of glass is that if you shine a light at glass at 90 degrees, it passes right through without any interference. But if you shine it at an angle almost parallel to the glass, it reflects off causing the end result to be obvious. So, no matter how the data is produced through the cable, the result would be much clearer than it would be on copper cables. It sends light signals for transmission and transmit only digital signals. It is more expensive than the copper cables, but a massive difference in results are achieved. Soon, all businesses and homes will be using fiber optic cables.

There are two types of fiber optic cables:

Single mode
The single mode cables are made of a single narrow fiber glass cable at its core. It increases the transfer rate and the distance of the transmission. And it costs more than the multi mode cables.

Multi mode
Multi mode cables consists of multiple hair-like strands which are bigger than single mode cables in diameter. It is not recommended for use when one wants to transfer data over long distance because the multiple paths of light can affect the end result to be unclear.

There many different types of fiber optic cable connectors, but these are just the most commonly used ones.