Why not Skip Cat 6 and Go Straight to Optical Fiber?
One can certainly do that, but a fiber system is still very expensive.
Ultimately, economics drive businesses, and today optical fiber together with
optical transceivers is about twice as expensive as an equivalent system built
using Category 6 and associated copper electronics. Installation of copper
cabling is more craft-friendly and can be accomplished with simple tools and
techniques. Additionally, copper cabling supports the data terminal equipment (DTE)
power standard developed by IEEE (802.3af).
PCs ship with copper network interfaces included, in fact, recent
announcements indicate that the major PC vendors are shipping 10/100/1000 with
all new systems. Moving to fiber would mean buying a fiber-based network card to
replace equipment already included in the PC.
The Category 6 Consortium is an emerging working group whose mission is to
create market and industry awareness—as well as demand—for cabling systems
and components based on TIA’s new category 6 cabling standard.
Source: www.tiaonline.org
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