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For anyone interested in copper vs fiber, take some time to read Chapter 1 of Nathan Farrington's dissertation: bnathanfarrington.com/papers/dissertation.pdf A
by brooksbp 13y ago
For anyone interested in copper vs fiber, take some time to read Chapter 1 of Nathan Farrington's dissertation: bnathanfarrington.com/papers/dissertation.pdf
As 10Gbps, and even 40G/100G, gain traction, you start running into cable length issues:
Attenuation and maximum length of AWG 7 copper wire:
Bit Rate (Gb/s), dB/m, Loss/m, Max length (m)
1, 0.721, 15.3%, 106
10, 2.28, 40.8%, 33.5
40, 4.56, 65.0%, 16
100, 7.21, 81.0%, 10.6