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Originally Posted by oilyfan
Fibre can carry upto 2.5 Gbps over 200 km, cable doesn't have that kind of bandwidth. I know Shaw has a fibre backbone, but Telus is bringing it much closer to the home and in a lot of cases to the home
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Not that it matters for a home user but the last I heard modern coax networks can push 10Gbps with edge QAMs.
Pure fibre has always been greater over longer distances hence why Telcos use it and hence why you cant get shaw cable in smaller towns because its just not worth it for them, but over shorter distances I have always been lead to believe that the coax cable is the superior cable.
It just happens that with the number of Telco's and their need for innovation they have found ways to keep up. When you strip away the plastic exterior of your basic coax each wire thread in there is capable of at least 10 different wavelengths on each strand - thats alot of theoretical bandwidth.
I have always compared Fibre vs Coax with GSM vs CDMA. CDMA theoretically is the better technology but when 80% of the world uses GSM because of its initial lower installation costs you get alot of innovation out of pure need.
Its been a while since I had to do the math on different wavelength possibilities for different mediums, maybe its time to dust off the ole textbook
