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 --- Post to this mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
