Splicing a fiber-optic cable.

Different fiber optic tools are used for different sized fiber optic cable maintenance. There are several different fiber optic tools, for example, there is the splicing fiber optic tool, test fiber optic tool, and cleaning fiber optic tool. The benefit of buying the same tool in different sizes may come in handy sometimes.

Fiber-optic cable.

A Toslink IS a Fiber Optic Digital Interconnect cable

Advantages of fiber optic cable which has most businesses opting for a pre-terminated fiber optic network over a copper wire network.

• Better Bandwidths
• Higher Data Transfer Speed
• Greater Distance
• Better Reliability
• Future Proofing
• Overall low costs

Some of disadvantages are:

Very difficult to merge

Highly vulnerable while fitting

Needs costly splicing machines and trained specialists