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We should ditch ethernet, coax, and copper completely for data transmission. Everything should be fiber cable. Fiber internet to the house, fiber throughout the house, etc.
Fiber throughout the house I think would be terrible simply because Ethernet cables get exposed to a lot of random stresses and a fiber cable would just snap. Of course this wouldn't matter that much if they were ubiquitous because they would be inexpensive simply by virtue of mass production, but even so it would be a pain in the ass to have to go down to your local 24-hour retail store to purchase a new fiber cable because you accidentally knocked over your Wi-Fi router.
Not to mention that for home uses, 10 gig ethernet, CAT6A is more than sufficient for all but the most niche needs and most people will never saturate a 10 gig cable under the best of circumstances.
Cat6 cable also has the admirable quality of being able to carry power as well as data.
Fibre... not so much.
Not the thin little bitch fibers were talking about for home use anyway. Need some of those thicc subsea fibers for that.
I talked to a high-end DIT once who’s pretty influential and even gets sponsorships. Corning gave him a fiber optic Thunderbolt cable made with Gorilla Glass. He said he could tie knots in it and it still worked. Made it real easy to take from filming location to filming location. Sounded like it was crazy expensive if anyone wanted to buy one, though.
You can do it, but the transceivers cost more. I have a fiber optic USB cable with embedded transceivers for long range use, beyond what USB can normally do. It was about $120, IIRC.
Also, for Ethernet, you can't do Power Over Ethernet, which is useful for some devices.
maybe because it's usb? fiber/ethernet sfp+ transvievers are about the same price ~$15 each. But ethernet modules consume a lot more power and have higher latency.
I imagine you could do power over fiber by simply using high-power lasers in your fiber connection, but it would be annoying and painful for you to accidentally break a fiber open and unleash an unaimed 45-watt fiber laser on yourself.
Ethernet would've been a great name for WiFi.
Especially mesh wifi.
I thought the same until I saw the price of the tools, copper is great.