The Overview of Fiber Optic Technology
The importance of technology in our lives is not a new thing. We are currently able to do so many things and able to live an easy life because of advanced technology. All the devices in our lives have made our life such productive. Technology has changed our lives drastically over a few years and it is definitely for the betterment of human lives. But these technologies also developing day by day to progress the advancement and smartphones are the biggest example of it.
Optical technology is the biggest reason why we are availing so many facilities of latest technologies with easy, there is always news of the new invention of devices and gadgets and all of them are mostly made of optical technology. There are many important devices that are made out of optical technology, which is very useful in many departments. Optical technology is the main thing that is used in electrical usage and supplies like test and measurement devices, networking devices.
Fiber optic cables are what optical technology is all about. Because of these cables, there have been many facilities available which were impossible to even think of. Before these cables, there were copper wires to do all the essential things and they were not very productive so the need for creating fiber cables was born. Optical fiber is build to transform light into data from transmitting. The fiber optic cables are made out of the glass or plastic thread and they transmit the data with the power of light. Can you imagine? There are now technologies that can use light to work for them, the exchanging of data is done at a very fast rate, almost to the speed of the light only 31 percent lower than the speed of light. Not only in the matter of speed but fiber optic technology offers many advantages that the wire of the wire didn’t.
- Fiber optic cable can transmit data way faster than metal wires because of the medium of light.
- Fiber optic technology can be used to transmit information long distance that is why we are able to call outside of our country.
- Before there were many cases of stolen data or information through tapping of wires and other ways. Because metal wires can be manipulated easily but fiber optic cables are hard to splice and does not pick up on electromagnetic signals so your data cannot get stolen.
- Because these cables are made of glass or plastic threads that is why they are lighter in weight and easy to install other than the old wires that were obviously heavy and hard to install.
- Fiber optic cables can do multitasking and it is all because of the greater bandwidth of these cables. That means one cable can carry the data of video call, audio call internet access and lots of other transmitting processes, so people can also save money because one cable is enough for all the transition.
- Metal wires were not capable of carrying more data at once and that is why there were so many wires need to use for a small number of transmitting. But fiber cables can carry 24, 000 calls in one of the threads so one whole cable is able to carry several million calls in them.
- Optic fiber sends signal digitally and not analogically, it is very helpful because it is the original form of computer data.
- Because the price of metal is high, obviously higher than plastic that is why the copper wires were expensive than fiber cables. So, you will be saving more money while choosing optic fiber for transition purposes.
We all have seen what AI can do. Artificial Intelligence is one of the parts of this technology. AI technology is more than capable of doing stuff that would need a human effort to do. AI built for simplifying a human’s life by assisting them in a task and other things. According to some experts, there will be a lot of jobs deprived of humans by AI. Because AI machine can single handily do a number of jobs at one time and that is with perfection. So, that can be a little troublesome for humanity, as it is also said that the rise of AI can wipe-out the whole of humanity.