Question

A company has two office buildings 400 feet apart, each with its own LAN. To connect the two networks, you plan to dig a trench and lay cable between the two buildings. You want to use fiber-optic cable, but your budget-conscious facilities manager wants to use 100 Mbps Ethernet over twisted-pair. Give two reasons to justify the use of fiber-optic cable.

Answer 1

It is better to use fiber-optic cable in the given situation, for two reasons:

1. Fiber optic cables support high bandwidth. There is no other technology that can offer as high bandwidth as it does in the modern era. Due to this feature, these cables can carry high volume of data.

2. They are also safe and secure. This is because signals are not emitted and it makes interception of data very difficult. Also, there is no provision for electricity while data transmission. Data transmission occurs using light. This also makes it safe to handle.