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Don't think so. It's too expensive to manufacture and too hard to use. Copper cables are expensive and easily confused with the cheaper cables that don't work.
by user5994461 8y ago
Don't think so. It's too expensive to manufacture and too hard to use. Copper cables are expensive and easily confused with the cheaper cables that don't work. Optics are very expensive and fragile.
And there is no usage for that of course. Home devices cannot handle 10gb/s of incoming data.
It gets worse. Users have massively abandoned Ethernet in favor of Wifi. Many devices are manufactured without Ethernet support.
- namibj 8y agoThere is not much fragility to e.g. Corning's zero bending loss single mode fiber. Sure, i'ts easier to bend, so just add like a corrugated spring steel tube around the fibers themselves, and cover that with something that prevents corrosion and such. And 10G SFP+ modules are not that fragile either. Actually, last I remember, for home distances (30-80m) you get cheaper with fiber than copper, just due to the very short reach fiber transceivers being low-tech and the corresponding fiber cables cheaper than highly shielded twister pair.
- user5994461 8y agoAn Ethernet cable doesn't break when it's bend or when it's accidentally rolled over with chair wheels.
- namibj 8y agoIf you make the fiber cable as thick as an Ethernet cable, you can easily make it not break when bend or rolled over.