The future of last-mile cable for plastic?
A promising way to solve the “last mile” problem when laying network cables was proposed by Korean scientists. The staff of the Korean Institute of Science and Technology has developed a plastic fiber-optic cable with the ability to transfer data at a speed of up to 2.5 Gbps per second.
According to scientists, copper cables (twisted pair), providing the “last mile” bandwidth up to 100 Mbit per second in the near future will not be enough. And, since the use of "on the ground" glass fiber-optic cables in view of their increased fragility and high cost impractical, then the cable with plastic instead of glass will be most welcome. It is flexible, relatively cheap compared to traditional fiber optic cable (by the way, Koreans do not indicate any numbers, since the solution is still far from commercialization) and provides data transfer 25 times faster than using a twisted pair.
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According to scientists, copper cables (twisted pair), providing the “last mile” bandwidth up to 100 Mbit per second in the near future will not be enough. And, since the use of "on the ground" glass fiber-optic cables in view of their increased fragility and high cost impractical, then the cable with plastic instead of glass will be most welcome. It is flexible, relatively cheap compared to traditional fiber optic cable (by the way, Koreans do not indicate any numbers, since the solution is still far from commercialization) and provides data transfer 25 times faster than using a twisted pair.
via 3DNews
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/16951/
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