what speeds are fiber optic capable of?

Question

what types are there? and what speeds is it capable of?
EX: 100 Base-T - 10 Mbps, 100mbps.

Thanks

Answer 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber-optic_communication


Through a combination of advances in dispersion management, wavelength-division multiplexing, and optical amplifiers, modern-day optical fibers can carry information at around 14 Terabits per second over 160 kilometers of fiber.

1,000,000,000,000 bits = 1 Terabit divide by 8
125,000,000,000= 1 terabyte
1024 gigabytes = terabyte
14,336 gigbytes/per second

Answer 2

The are two main types of fiber optic cables: multi-mode and single mode. The difference between the 2 is that single mode uses a laser to transmit signals and multi-mode uses an LED

Here are some types of fiber and how far they can transmit:
100 BaseFX: 2000m
1000 BaseSX: 550m
10G Base SR: 300m
1000 BaseLX: 550m/multi-mode, 2000m single-mode
10G Base LR:10km
10G Base ER: 40km
FDDI: 10km

To figure out speed take the number at the beginning and add Mbps to it. The ones with the G are Gigabit

Answer 3

Yeah, what they said.

fiber optic is damn fast. you'll never be able to lag it, even gigabit ethernet cannot use fiber optic to it's full potential