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Why Do Businesses Need Fibre Optic Cabling?

Fibre optic internet services are becoming increasingly popular especially in the business world, mainly for the use of data storage or cloud. Speed of connection, extra security, storage and cloud access are just some of the reasons for its popularity.

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5 main reasons why fibre optic cabling is the better choice


A fibre optic cable is a network cable that contains strands of glass fibres inside insulated casing. They are designed this way to allow for a higher performance compared to wired cables. Fibre optic cables transmit data over long distances and now supports much of the worlds internet, television and telephone systems.

Having fibre optic cabling can be hugely advantageous for businesses of all sizes. The businesses who need speed and data storage benefit massively from fibre optic cables.

  • Less susceptible to interference 

Compared to a copper network cable, which requires shielding from electromagnetic interference. The fibre optic cabling due to its physical properties avoid the majority of these problems. This makes it great for businesses as they can expect a much clearer and more efficient service. 

  • Speed of connection

The cables allows for a much stronger and faster connection, because the cables have a core that carries light to transmit data it allows them to carry signals at speeds that are roughly 31% slower than the speed of light. 

The speed of the connection is part of the reasons many businesses have already replaced their old copper cables with fibre optic cables. 


  • Great bandwidth

Fibre optic cables provide more bandwidth for carrying more data than copper cables with the same diameter, because copper cables were originally designed for voice transmission not data. 

Replacing the copper cables with the same size fibre optic cables gives businesses a much bigger bandwidth with no extra space needed. 

  • Large files transferred quick

One of the main benefits of using fibre optic is high quality video streaming, cloud applications on a dedicated bandwidth and the ability to transfer larger files quicker. 

Most businesses have found that they need the ability to be able to share large amounts of data to other sources quickly to make their businesses efficient, this has been made quicker and easier with switching from copper cables to fibre optic. 

  • Stronger security 

In the majority of cases, if the fibre optic cables are accessed at the end of the cable by cutting into it the network would come down making the business aware of the situation. 

Because fibre optic cables don’t emit signals; it makes connecting to a fibre cable incredibly difficult. 

By changing over to fibre optic cabling, you are servicing the needs of your business by upgrading your network and creating a faster, stronger connection for you and your employees. 

Birch Technical Services provides fibre optic cabling solutions to commercial, industrial and public sector organisations within the Colchester area. Get in touch today to find out more about fibre optic cables.

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