1. Unless you go to proprietory fibre, both can go to 1000Mb/s, so neither has a great speed advantate.
2. Wired is much cheaper. It's not the fibre that's expensive, but the terminations and the adapters.
3. Fibre can do much longer distances. Basic multimode 500 m. Monomode many kilometres. In theory wired is limited to 100 m. In practice you can get reliable connection at 100 Mb/s with up to 200 m. For 1000 MB/s, about 150m is the norm.
4. Fibre requires no electrical connection. So there are no problems about the earth potential being different in different buildings. In many practical situations, this isn't a major problem.
5. Lightening strikes on the ground can, in theory, damage switches connected with cables. In practice, over 8 years of plenty of lightening storms connecting separated buildings in a school site of 5 acres we have had no lightening problems.
Twisted Pair Cables:
- Generally made of copper
- Cables arranged in a twisted pair to help cancel-out electronic noise
- For long distances, needs a device to boost the signal before it degrades.
- Industry Standard on large, medium to small-scale deployments. Usually found on the user-side of infrastructure.
Fibre Optic Cables:
- Generally made of glass or plastic
- No electronic noise, very clean signal.
- Can go super-long distances before needing to be boosted.
- Industry standard for high-end deployments, super-fast speeds (10Gigabit), Core networking infrastructure.
- Proper training is needed to properly use Fibre as it has certain limitations (such as it can't be bent at a 90-degree angle).
Fiber is faster, non-conductive, does not receive interference and is more expensive, but they do much the same job.
Yarn is fibre; bobbin is a storage reel for fibre.
A staple fibre is a short fibre A filament fibre is a long fibre it has nothing to do with being man made or natural
glass you can see through and fibreglass you can not
Fiber and fibre mean the same thing. The only difference is that fiber is derived from American English, and fibre is derived from European English.
what is fibre-optics
cotton's a fibre polar fleece is a fabric
Hi, Fiber Optics transmit signal using lights rather than electic current, so when signal passes though an optical fiber cable, it does not generate electric or magnetic field around it, and it is not affected by surrounding magnetic or electric fields Adv of optical fiber is that they are immune to noise, signal passes at lights speed, and no signal power is lost along the transmission line.
Since neither word describes a natural fibre, the difference is probably vocabulary choice.
Fiber optic cable has higher data transmission rate compare to twisted-pair cable.Twisted pair cables (or common telephone wires) are composed of individual pairs of copper wires that are insulated by plastic and twisted together. These wire pairs are then bundled together into one cable then covered by a plastic or lead insulator. Whereas, Fibre Optic Cables are composed of lightweight, hair-thin strands of plastic or glass that use light as a conductor of data transmission signals. Electrical signals must be translated into pulses of light that are sent over the optical fiber by a light source such as a laser or a Light Emitting Diode (LED). The individual fiber optic strands are covered in such a way as to minimize loss of light on the line. - Jvy (MKJB)
The only difference is the spelling. In UK, Australia, New Zealand, etc., it is spelt, "fibre". In USA, it is spelled, "fiber".
Wool is a natural fibre grown by animals as fleece; polyester is fabricated from petroleum.
fibre optics cables are used as transmission medium.