When people think of fiber-optic cable, they normally think of their internet provider bringing in bandwidth from the street to their building. Sometimes you actually need fiber cable within your company to properly transmit your network throughout your organization.

The most common reason you will need fiber cable is length limitations. Cat6 cable is limited to 100 meters (328 feet), when you transmit data on cat6 over that limit, you will start experiencing issues on your network. If you are, for example, expanding your office to a new suite 500 feet away from your main server room, you should install fiber-optic cable to link the two server rooms.

Another reason you would need to use fiber-optic cable is when you have a large amount of users at another area of your office, that have their network cables going to another server closet than your main closet. Even when the two closets are under the length limitations, you can experience bottlenecks if moving large amounts of data from one network switch to another over cat6. Using fiber-optic allows for much more data to move efficiently than over cat6.

Also, if you are deploying high bandwidth devices such as high-resolution cameras, or video editing bays from one closet to another, you should use fiber-optic cable to reduce issues moving your data.

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