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But you do need the transceivers at both ends which inflates the cost significantly.
by timthorn 8y ago
But you do need the transceivers at both ends which inflates the cost significantly.
- walrus01 8y agoFor 40G/100G, sure, but for intra-facility connections, 1310nm/LX 10GbE SFP+ are like $27 a piece now. For servers and connections that will be upgraded in the future, fiber is the way to go. If you need low cost, relatively unskilled labor to run cat6 cable to ceiling mounted wifi access points, by all means use copper. But 2.5 and 5GBaseT (nevermind 10GBaseT) are really pushing the limits of how fast we'll ever be able to send down a 8-wire copper cable, even with advanced modulation and signal processing. Singlemode is futureproof for probably the next 50 years.