Fiber optic cables are, like their name suggests, a cable that uses light, rather than electricity to transmit information. They’re made from silica glass fibers about the same w… See more

Fiber optic cables, from the outside at least, don’t look drastically different from many other kinds of cabling, since their outermost layer tends to be a colored plastic or silicon tubing. It’s … See more

Fiber optic cables utilize light to transfer information, so do so at light speed. However, the way the cables are constructed can have a dramatic impact on bandwidth … See more

Multimode fiber optic cables are characterized by a much broader internal core, measuring either 50µm or 62.5µm which allows multiple streams of data to be sent down t… See more