Why are we fixated on Multimode fiber for high bandwidth communication?

Tue Dec 31 19:08:36 UTC 2013

On Dec 31, 2013, at 2:00 PM, eric clark <cabenth at gmail.com> wrote:

> Anyone know why the industry has their head stuck on MultiMode?

at 10G the optics costs are about 1/3 that of SMF (SR vs LR).

We tend to keep things SMF, but within many older datacenters MMF is broadly available and does meet the needs at a lower cost.

There seems to be a shifting trend as well in UPC vs APC connectors.

I think much of this problem is clearly articulated here: http://xkcd.com/927/

Everyones needs are a bit different.

- Jared