How much fiber optic cable wears down per kilometer
For example, a fiber optic cable with a distance of 1km supports a bandwidth of 500MHz, while a fiber optic cable with a distance of 2km can only support a bandwidth of 250MHz. For most enterprise or data center applications using multimode fiber, the practical limit sits between 300 m and 550 m. That means that signals do not necessarily arrive at the receiver at the same instant. Loss variables are connectors, splices and attenuation per kilometer of the fiber.
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