Fiber Optic Cables
Discussions revolve around the advantages of fiber optic cables over alternatives like copper, including speed, bandwidth, reliability, scalability, and suitability for high-speed networking links.
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Fiber is about 0.6c and the cables are much longer than direct line of sight.
Is there anything like this but for fiber optic?
That's true for copper cables not so much for fiber optics ;)
Why don't they just put more light fibers in there while they're at it, as they're small and cheap?
Why aren't they building a fiber optic link? Is it that the shipping channel makes it too likely for disruption of the link?
Any reason you can't use pre-terminated fiber?
Yeah also fiber are smaller and can help sometimes.. and have no length issues like copper
Yes operating a non fibre cable is too expensive and does not make sense. Fibre cables on the other hand have remained operational over a long time. AFAIK there are no fibre cables using electro optic repeaters operational anymore. But the earliest fibres which used optical amplification are still operational. This is the beauty about fibre communication. You largely only need to upgrade the endpoints to increase your throughput.
The amount of power that will use up is massive, they should've gone for some fiber instead
It says over fiber. I assume that has to be a straight shot point to point non-routed? Or could this deal with repeaters and routers etc