While Fibre Optic cabling stands out over a traditional copper based wiring infrastructure, based on its ability to achieve data transmission at incredibly vast distances of several Kilometers. Fibre Optic communications also excel in its ability to provide an incredible data bandwidth throughput potential between end-to-end transceiver communication modules. Fibre Optic Infrastructures are often considered in the technology industry as being able to provide an essentially unlimited bandwidth and data packet transmission throughput potential for both TX / RX upload and download links.
A typical Copper Structured Cabling Infrastructure consisting of Category Grade Ethernet networking cable provides data transmission to connected devices on the network by sending electrical currents over multiple pairs of copper conductors. These electrical data transmission currents can reliably send and receive Download / Upload data packet information at distances up to 300+ feet at a maxed out transmission speed rate of up to 10 Gbps.
Fibre Optic Cabling Infrastructures on the other hand stands out as much superior form of data packet transmission in relation to a traditional Copper Cable Infrastructure. Simply based on the fact that Fibre Optic Communications transmit a digital network signal between connected devices on the network utilizing specialized Fibre Optic transceiver modules on the send and receive end of the cable. Fibre Optic transmission signals consist of rapid pulses of light which are emitted from a sophisticated laser system, broadcasted through a single Strand of Fibre Optic glass core, located within the centre of the Fibre Cable outer sheathing and jacket material.
An individual glass core strand of Single-Mode Fibre Optic Cable (SM Fibre) provides a typical data transmission speed rate of up to 40Gbps at distances up to 40+KM in most use cases and application types. This data transmission process is achieved by utilizing specialized Fibre Optic data transceivers on both the sending and receiving ends of the appropriately terminated Fibre Strand. This unique feature is what makes Fibre Optics an incredible networking resource when it comes to small or large-scale applications, that demand incredible data throughput at vast distances, which can be implemented for both residential and commercial installations.
Fibre Optic strands, which are the physical individual glass core centers of the Fibre Optic Cable are incredibly thin in diameter. These individual core strands are slightly larger than a piece of human hair and are extremely delicate and must be handled with the upmost care once the exterior jackets have been removed to expose the single glass core prior to splicing connections and installing LC/SC cable ends. This inner glass core is surrounded and concealed by a specialized exterior cladding material which reflects the transmitted laser light within the core, eliminating the rapidly pulsing light from escaping the cable prior to reaching the spliced end point location.
Simply put, Fibre Optic Cabling functions by following a specific send and receive data communication protocol. At each end of the Fibre Optic Cable a dedicated specific connector is selected based on the required installation parameters and is then spliced very carefully onto each end of a single strand of Fibre glass core, via a Fusion splicer. Once the appropriate connectors are spliced onto the ends of the Fibre Optic core, both ends are then plugged into a specific device at both ends of the cable, which is referred to as a Fibre Optic transceiver module. This transceiver then takes the incoming and outgoing electrical current data packet information and converts the electrical transmission signals into rapid pulses of light, which is then transmitted as light energy through the glass core of the Fibre Optic core via a laser based data packet transmission protocol.
