This. Still, as a former engineer who follows the field from a business standpoint but is not too close to the technicals anymore, the idea of finding new bands within fiber was not something I had in mind at all, there’s a lot of potential there if some of it can be applied in long-range transport.
OM1 through OM4 have full rate distances of less than 800 meters.
Yes there is faster stuff that goes for literal miles but saying that optical fiber can always go miles is incorrect.
To be fair it’s obviously meant that they’re talking about singlemode and not multimode.
No one said “always”; original comment is correct that fiber can literally go miles
This. Still, as a former engineer who follows the field from a business standpoint but is not too close to the technicals anymore, the idea of finding new bands within fiber was not something I had in mind at all, there’s a lot of potential there if some of it can be applied in long-range transport.