The Pros And Cons Of Fiber Optics

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New Jersey Institute of Technology Fiber Optics Reema Panjawani Fnu Saba IT120 – 001 Joan Kettering November 11, 2014 Introduction: As time is passing by we are coming across new technologies. One of these technologies is fiber optics. Fiber optics is a networking term that comes from optical fibers which is a fiber made from glass that transmits light. It is one type of cabling/medium that supports high bandwidth thus giving high speed. Fiber optics has proved to be a blessing for telephone companies when they were running out of business due to cable communication. Developed by physicists, this technology is widely used to access high speed internet today. Besides this, it has many other uses and has history involved behind the invention. …show more content…

Even though fiber optics is very efficient and better technology others. But it also has some disadvantages as well. One of them is system reconfiguration. In order to update any work area with fiber optics can take a lot more money and time because every hardware and software has to update according to the needs of fiber optics. Sometimes it’s really fine to send high speed data out from serial coaction than parallel. The modification will be need in both hardware and software and it still will create issue in transmitting data because the little differences in old programs can cause big problems. We would send something and receiver would receive something else; which would be totally unreadable. So this whole procedure of modification of everything will cost a lot of money. The second most popular problem with fiber optics is that it does not have good limitations in local area network. According to higher management it will take longer time to change everything in spite of fiber optics . In order update the current network with fiber optics will take a lot of effort and changes which managements are not willing to do. Also people are happy with what they have. Also with LANs, it would take great amount of money to change everything to fiber optics and update each and every machine with new program. Actually as a conclusion the main problem with fiber optics is that it is very expensive and it will cost efficient of money because then every hardware and software will need to be update as

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