25 Nov
2022
25 Nov
'22
10:45 p.m.
On Fri, Nov 25, 2022 at 05:20:46PM -0500, James Knott via talk wrote:
The bare fibre is more reliable than copper, as it doesn't need all the extra equipment to carry today's digital signals. Fibre can carry data much further than copper ever dreamed of. Years ago, a company might get a DS1 (T1) line, which ran at a blazing 1.544 Mb/s! It also required repeaters about every 6000', IIRC. The coax based cable network likewise has distance limits that require amplification. Depending on the bandwidth and fibre, distances with it can be thousands of Km.
True, but a plain old phone line was powered by Bell and worked during power failures. VoIP on a fiber line doesn't do that. -- Len Sornesen