Visual of Fiber Optic Bandwidth
Friday January 19th 2007, 11:12 am
Filed under: Internets

Most people know that Fiber Optic is has much higher capacity than copper lines, but I was really amazed from the comparison made in the “Light Speed” episode of the PBS show “Innovation”.

That red line on the right of this photo is a single strand of fiber optic cable…

Fiber Optic Cable 2

It has the same bandwidth capacity as all these bundles of copper:

Fiber Optic Cable


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