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For a long time, my country's broadband has been criticized for "the price of broadband and the speed of narrowband". The decline of traditional telecom services and business models cannot be reversed, and transformation has become an inevitable choice.

Fiber Optics and Copper Cables Have Their Advantages

As the price of copper cables has risen sharply, the cost of continuing to use copper raw materials to increase bandwidth is too high, while the prices of optical fiber cables and optical transceiver modules have gradually decreased. At the same time, optical fiber has become the best choice for copper cable broadband after development due to its advantages of large transmission capacity, low loss, anti-electromagnetic interference, good confidentiality, light weight and abundant raw material resources.

As the information age has entered a period of rapid development, the upgrade of broadband transmission has entered a period of high growth in the application of 10 Gigabit technology. Compared with optical fiber, considering the cost, the 10G copper cable solution has the advantage of low cost and has been widely developed and applied. In the future, data center cabling applications will become the soil or driving factor for the 10G copper cable application market. Cable technology may become the mainstream of integrated wiring system applications and continue to grow.

At the same time, in data center cabling, copper cabling accounts for a higher proportion than fiber optic cabling. Small data centers mostly use copper cable cabling, large data centers use fiber optic cabling, and medium-sized data centers generally use mixed copper and fiber cabling.

Fiber and copper cables complement each other

At present, both optical fibers and copper cables have their own markets, and it is impractical to isolate one party immediately in the process of "light entering copper and retreating" and adopting another product.

At present, the data center is fully deployed with optical fiber systems, and the overall cost of the network is much higher than that of copper cables, and the energy consumption of active equipment with optical fiber interfaces is relatively high. The speed of the copper cable cabling system can meet the requirements of 10 Gigabit, and the security problem can be realized by the shielded twisted pair system. Moreover, the popular PoE technology cannot be directly applied to the optical fiber like the twisted pair copper cable. best choice.

In the future, both copper cabling and optical fiber cabling will be useful, and copper cables will still occupy a considerable market share. Due to technical reasons, cost reasons, equipment development and other reasons, copper and light cannot replace each other. Therefore, at this stage, the two transmission media are compatible with each other

Combine and complement each other, forming a situation of luminous flux going hand in hand.