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- The big challenge that you run into when you start using fiber ethernet is that you don't have one physical standard when it comes to connection. When we're using copper, it's pretty much always RJ45s. So I don't care if it's 10 base T or one gig, you're still going to be using that same type of physical connection. Now, with fiber, they don't specify that, and it's a smart idea because there's a lot of different ways to make fiber connections. We've got an entire episode that goes over things like ST and SC and LC and MTRJ type connectors. But imagine you're in a situation where you're buying some new switches, and if we were fixed on only one type of connector, we would have a real problem because I would have to build a switch that would be one version of switch that had ST connectors in it, another switch that had SC connectors in it, and another switch that had LC, and all this, the exact same switch. So to get around this problem, the guys who make switches got together, Cisco…

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