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Some people might think about the Internet as something ethereal that floats around the sky like a cloud, but the truth is that Internet actually occupies physical space in buildings known as data centers.

Optical fiber cables transmit data as light pulses over long distances so we can have Internet access and stream Netflix or check our social media. And their performance is really well, at least until an animal decides is time to eat delicious glass strands and shut down our connections



You surely have listened the term “dark fiber” and wonder what it is about. The term refers to optical fiber infrastructure that hasn’t been lit yet, meaning it is installed but it isn’t being used.

An easy to understand guide about connectors that may help you to get the right purchase

Fiber To The Home (FTTH) is the use of fiber optic cords to deliver communications signals from the operator’s central network to individual houses, buildings or residences, changing old copper infrastructures to provide higher bandwidth to customers. There are roughly 15 million FTTH subscribers in Europe, 9.6 million in the U.S and 2.6 million in Latin America.

Technology is often created to improve our life, making it easier and better, but sometimes progresses affect our world, this is why telecom department is getting greener and greener replacing old school copper wired with fiber optic technologies.

Ethernet cards suitable to process data through fiber optics cable can go way faster than normal Cat-technology cables, here's our top 5 cards and it uses.

Optic fiber bases its velocity on the speed at which these beams of light travel from one point to another. There are two types of fiber cables that are commonly used it, singlemode and multimode.