Generally you just use fiber on your backbone or high traffic areas and cat5 the rest of the network. Fiber is expensive, fragile and requires skilled personnel to install correctly. I remember sitting for almost an hour once watching this guy carefully strip, clean and polish a section of fiber. You should do some testing on your network to see if you actually need anything more than 100mbps before you commit. I dunno, that's just my experience with it.

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Can someone comment here on reasons to use fiber for network cable now
instead of old style standard cat5 cable?
I see lots of fiber equipment out there but 100mbps is 100mbps right?
Is fiber economical when you get into over 100mbps situations?
thanks.


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