Week 4 DQ 1

Chapter 2 of Telecom Essentials describes various traditional transmission media. PICK ONE, and only ONE type media and answer the DQ:

Briefly describing the benefits of the physical media type you chose.

Briefly compare and contrast the media you chose with the others covered in the chapter.

Describe why a business would choose this media. Be specific.

Answer:

The media type that I picked is fiber optics. Fiber optics have been around for such a long time that few people realize that this technology has been around for well over 200 years. Know this does not mean that the fiberoptics cord or connections has been around that lon, but the idea has.

There are many benefits to using fiber over Cat5. The first one that I can think of is the security of the line. Fiber...