Unless you’ve been living under a connectivity rock for the past two years, you have noticed the explosive growth in the use of fiber optics for a wide variety of communication needs. Take my house for example. After living with basic DSL for 12-14 years, we recently updated our system to the AT&T U-Verse “super DSL” about 12 months ago. What I soon found out was there was a price to be paid for higher bandwidth — increased packet loss and communication problems. I badgered the U-Verse people until they brought singlemode fiber right to my desk — well, underneath it, to be precise. Now I’ve got the power and the big pipe that only fiber optics can provide.
Having been a fiber optics trainer for more than 12 years, I have seen and heard of a wide variety of applications using fiber optics, such as manufacturing, prisons, tollways, wind farms and many security camera connections. Fiber is the way to go to get big bandwidth, great distance and immunity to RFI/EMI.