| vivster said: Of course it's not at its limit yet, but trying to keep outdated technology desperately alive is a bad use of resources. It's time for the optical revolution. It's the same bullshit in my country where idiots try to desperately keep ISDN alive. Copper is fine for 90% of use cases but that doesn't mean you should tryto fill up the last 10% as well. High end should easily have multiple options of fibre available by now but it doesbn't. Nobody bothered to go there and just accepted the limitations of mainstream technology for the high end. |
Copper does have an advantage over Fibre. Copper can act as power delivery.
For monitors that's not really an issue though... But for something like a passive splitter, cabled mice, keyboards, external drives... That can be issue.
As for ISDN... Well, ISDN can work over long distances, about 18 kilometers compared to DSL's up-to 4 kilometers.
Here in Australia we are rolling out Fibre, Hybrid Fibre Coax and re-using the copper with nodes closer to each home that employs VDSL modulation... All three are able to obtain up-to 100Mbps. With possibilities of 300-350Mbps on short loops with vectoring.
I would love to live in a fully Fibre world, but re-using copper can save money, so we should continue to do it whilst it's feasible.
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