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I'd argue that if you're not doing a home setup, you should use fiber for anything 10GBe+. Less latency and power draw.
by llama052 8y ago
I'd argue that if you're not doing a home setup, you should use fiber for anything 10GBe+. Less latency and power draw.
- meitham 8y agoCan Fibre support PoE? As that's really useful at home.
- bjoli 8y agoI am curious what you are doing that is 10GB+ on your home network. Not snark. Genuinely curious.
- meitham 8y agoI'm not using 10GB! I was not implying that. I am however using cat6 cables and I get around 800mbps speed around the house. I have PoE injector and some of my devices (access point, cameras, raspberrypies) are powered through the cable. I was genuinely wondering if one of the disadvantages of optical cables is the lack of PoE, due to the lack of copper wires.
- sokoloff 8y agoFiber is often chosen specifically for its electrical isolation properties (runs between different buildings as just one example). Your intuition that fiber doesn't support PoE is correct.
- LeonM 8y agoI don't know if you are being sarcastic or not, but there are optical cables that are bundled with copper conductors for power delivery.
- meitham 8y agoNot sarcastic at all, I was genuinely wondering, and thank you for pointing out the copper wire in optical cables, I didn't there was such a thing.
- Hikikomori 8y agoDAC/Twinax if inside rack as it's much cheaper, lower latency and less power. Fiber between racks though.
- llama052 8y agoah yes, completely agree!