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Fiber optic cabling

Fiber optic cabling

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Fiber optic cabling

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- The Network+ exam talks a lot about fiber optic cabling. So in this episode, what I want to do is introduce you to fiber optics and talk about the many, many connectors that you're going to be seeing on Network+. But before we talk about the connectors, let's first make sure we understand what fiber optic cable actually is. So, what I have in front of me here is a chunk of fiber optic cable. And a fiber optic cable, well, it's hard for me to show you, so let me put up a little graphic so you can see. So, a fiber optic cable is going to have a fiber optic, which actually carries a light and it's going to be surrounded by a cladding. And that's what the light is actually reflecting off of as it stays inside the fiber itself. And then, outside of that is a fiber optic jacket that actually just protects the entire setup. So, now that you've seen at a microscopic level what it looks like, there are two types of fiber optic cable out there. There's multimode and there is single-mode…

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