Two recent networking graduates from a local college have just been hired by a communication company to work on various network cabling projects throughout the state. Why would the company consider using fiber-optic cabling in long-haul networks?

IT Exam Items Repository › Category: CCNA › Two recent networking graduates from a local college have just been hired by a communication company to work on various network cabling projects throughout the state. Why would the company consider using fiber-optic cabling in long-haul networks?

to provide high capacity solutions for teleworkers
to provide always-on broadband services to customers in homes and small businesses
to provide backbone cabling to applications and interconnecting infrastructure devices for customers
to provide connectivity between countries or between cities

Explanation: Fiber-optic cabling is now being used in four types of industry: enterprise networks (backbone cabling applications and interconnecting infrastructure devices); fiber-to-the-home (always-on broadband services to homes and small businesses); long-haul networks (connecting countries to countries and cities to cities); and submarine cable networks (reliable high-speed, high-capacity solutions capable of surviving in harsh undersea environments at up to transoceanic distances).

Two recent networking graduates from a local college have just been hired by a communication company to work on various network cabling projects throughout the state. Why would the company consider using fiber-optic cabling in long-haul networks?

About The Author

ITExam Editorial Team