This analysis poll week 5 shows that amongst 47 total votes, 81% of it chose fiber optic, 11% on cable and 9% on Ethernet. The right answer for the question is actually fiber optic. Fiber optic it is made up of super-thin filaments of glass or other transparent materials that can carry beams of light. Because a fiber-optic cable is light-based, data can be sent through it at the speed of light. Using a laser transmitter that encodes frequency signals into pulses of light, ones and zeros are sent through the cable. The receiving end of the transmission translates the light signals back into data which can be read by a computer. Compare to a cable and Ethernet, their connection is much slower than fiber optic.
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- TechTerms, fiber-optic cable definition [Online], Retreived 11th October 2010, URL http://www.techterms.com/definition/fiberopticcable
