“ The basic issue with cables is that , the higher the frequency of the signal , the more that the electrons move to the outside of the cable , and then end up radiating into space ”
— Brad Smith , Director of Marketing , Nvidia
a small , enterprise facility you can probably wire the whole thing up with copper . But if you ’ re Facebook and your data centre has two ZIP codes , then you ’ re going to have to use single mode fibre optics , which are the same type they use in the telecom industry ,” Smith explains .
Copper also has a wider bend radius than fibre , and the need for copper wiring to be insulated means that fibre optic cables tend to be a lot less bulky - a fact worth considering in modern , hyper-dense work spaces , HPC facilities or micro edge data centres . The benefits of Fibre optic cabling mostly
45 datacentremagazine . com